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Shooting partridges in Spain

Under a cloudless Castilian sky, a party of hunters – and a pack of Labrador retrievers – roam Don Quixote country. Mark Mulligan joins them

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The Great Outdoors

Golf with a trick-shot master

Tom Cox picks up a host of short-game secrets at the Jeremy Dale Scoring School

Extreme sailing at the iShares Cup

Richard Donkin goes on a fast catamaran sprint with Mike Golding, better known for his round-the-world exploits, in the event that is becoming sailing’s Formula 1. For video footage of the sailors in action at the iShares Cup in Almeria click here

Red deer mating season at Exmoor

In autumn, the wooded coombs and farm pastures echo to one of the most thrilling sounds in nature: the roaring of the stags as they briefly join the hinds for the rut

    Test Drive

    Cessna’s new 162 SkyCatcher

    Twenty-four years after the classic 150 was discontinued, the Kansas-based aircraft company launches its successor. Rohit Jaggi climbs into the cockpit

    Maserati’s Quattroporte Sport GTS

    Colourful, vivacious - and not entirely respectful of the rules. John Griffiths revels in the Italianate flair of this luxury saloon

    The Renaultsport Mégane hatchback

    With its coupé-like stylishness and exceptionally large ventilated disc brakes that haul the speed down effortlessly, this model offers a good ride, writes John Griffiths

      Health & Fitness

      Top swimming equipment

      Goggles, snorkels, fins, kickboards and other gear that help you improve technique and add speed and strength to your strokes and kicks

      The latest high-tech sports watches

      Five of the best devices will measure your speed, heart rate and oxygen intake – not to mention tell you the temperature, barometric pressure and when the sun sets

      Training with Britain’s leading pentathlete

      While Heather Fell’s peers practise at Bath University, she rides at local stables, swims at her old school pool and shoots in her back garden

      Ultimate Fighting in the UK

      A common sight on pay-per-view television, mixed martial arts cherry-picks the best elements of individual styles and combines them into one adaptable technique

        The Walk File

        The walk file: Penn Wood, Buckinghamshire

        The largest ancient woodland in the Chilterns is big enough to get lost in and contains evidence of at least 2,000 years of human existence, says Harry Eyres

        The walk file: Swinbrook, Oxfordshire

        Leave the car by the green where the old post office stood in gentler days and climb the stone steps into the yard of St Mary the Virgin for an encounter with three vain knights and the Mitford sisters, writes Colin Tudge

        The walk file: Dedham, Essex-Suffolk border

        Start at the car park near Dedham Mill and cross the bridge to join the footpath along the banks of the Stour, where swans glide among the bulrushes

        The walk file: Wivelsfield, Sussex

        Set off on a trail through idyllic farmland, past rare-breed cattle and tall hedgerows, to follow a footpath leading to a field of friendly alpacas

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