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Fred Kocher sits down with John Mortimer, owner of Millennium Running, to discuss how exercise can positively impact stress, anxiety, burnout. and depression. TOP STORIES FROM WMUR: The Lakes Region remains busy with visitors despite rain Memorial Day weekend Pastrnak has hat trick as Bruins blast Islanders 5-2 2 Haverhill men reported missing found alive in Vermont, police say Police searching for person who fired gun, hitting Claremont...

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Bunny Mortimer has died after battling bowel cancer, but her legacy lives on for the public through the Taitua Arboretum.

Hamilton Mayor Paula Southgate says Hamilton hearts will be heavy today given the death of one of the city’s most generous and passionate environmental champions. Bunny Mortimer, alongside her husband John Mortimer, gifted the 20-hectare Taitua ...

Controversial publisher Felix Dennis estate in Dorsington, Warwickshire, is on the market again for £4million  Inspired by Treasure Island, the barn disguises a pirate pool with palm trees, a crows nest and a fish tank wall Built at a cost of of £5million to Mr Dennis, the 12,185 square foot home is now on sale for a discounted price

Don’t believe The Pursuit of Love – not all aristocrats are bigots, buffoons and bounders Are the English upper classes an absurd alien race? The makers of The Pursuit of Love – and many more TV dramas – certainly seem to think so Lily James as Linda in The Pursuit of Love Credit: BBC Emily Mortimer’s production of The Pursuit of Love presented her with an interesting conundrum. She was not just bringing the eccentric aristocracy to the screen, she was adapting them from Nancy Mitfo...

Forty Years of ITV’s ‘Brideshead Revisited’ – Charming, Sentimental and Tragic Brian Dillon on the television programme’s museum of images and memories  A meditation on ‘divine grace’, a hymn to the ‘splendours of the recent past’ – this is how Evelyn Waugh described his 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited. The grace is more earthbound, the splendours more ravishing in Granada Television’s celebrated adaptation, which turns 40 this year. In the autumn of 19...

Keir Starmer attempted a reshuffle yesterday after disastrous Super Thursday e The Labour leader seemingly failed to demote his deputy Angela Rayner  She got plum job after a bitter 24-hour standoff with tensions raging for months Hartlepool election chief complained over Ms Rayners scruffy dress  on visit Her team hit the roof and claim that Starmers team consider her a working class oik and a bit thick

The Pursuit of Love director Emily Mortimer has spoken about adapting Nancy Mitfords novel for the BBC.

4 May 2021 • 6:00am Lily James and Emily Beecham share a bath in a scene from the first episode of The Pursuit of Love The Mitford sisters would doubtless approve. Emily Mortimer, the daughter of the novelist John Mortimer, has admitted she channelled her inner “punk” to make the raciest version yet of Nancy Mitford’s classic novel The Pursuit of Love. As this first photograph from the BBC’s new lavish costume drama shows, it’s all drama and very little costume. The three-part seria...