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Country Life Trending: Grade I-listed Chilham Castle, in Chilham, Kent, graces the market for the first time in 20 years. One of southern England’s most beautiful country estates, comprising the Grade I-listed, 17th-century Chilham Castle, its medieval keep and its surrounding 300-acre demesne at Chilham, six miles from Canterbury and nine miles from Ashford, has come to the market with a guide price of ‘excess £15 million’ through Knight Frank. The sale follows the death last July...

Jake Ham outside Swindon Crown Court; inset, Ram Alley Pictures: ADVER PHOTOGRAPHER/GOOGLE A LAND Rover driver repeatedly rammed a Honda on Ram Alley, in a shocking incident that has led to calls from a local councillor for people to observe speed limits. Jake Ham, 20, was driving the 4x4 on false plates, without insurance and while towing another vehicle when he came face-to-face with the Honda on the single-track road near Burbage in May 2019. Ham was passing through Ram Alley when...

Their 2012 wedding featured in Vogue thanks to its society guest list and glamorous location, her family home Chilham Castle in Kent.  But the fairytale is over for Jacquetta Wheeler – daughter of the late betting tycoon Stuart Wheeler – and Jamie Allsopp, a dashing hedgie with whom she has three children.  The couple have quietly divorced and Jacquetta, 39, is now holed up at the castle. She was putting the kids to bed on her own when I called to check in on her last week, and she confir...

click to enlarge As usual, this month for 12 Minutes Max, the library has got a unique lineup of art, this time heavy on the music and dance side of things. Dance artist and teacher at the School of Dance at the University of Utah, Halie Bahr will kick things off with part of her work Rough Cuts (pictured), a six-dancer-assisted interpretation of the game many of us grew up playing, “the-floor-is-lava.” Also assisting the dan...

Woman in the City: An interview with June Felix of IG Group Simon English June Felix has been CEO of IG, the leading investment platform, since October 2018. This makes her one of the few female bosses of a major City firm. IG has been around since 1974 – its founder Stuart Wheeler was a famed financier and major donor to the Conservative Party. The business enjoyed a record year. Felix, 64, talks to Simon English about her plans for the future. IG has had a great year. There ...

While the pandemic has wreaked havoc on vast swathes of British business, trading firms are in the pink. Households are estimated to have built up around £100billion of extra cash in lockdown as spending on everything from travel to meals out evaporated. Many of these accidental savers have looked for ways to put this money to work – and with interest rates at record lows, the volatile world of the financial markets has become a tempting alternative. IG Group, headed by banker June Felix (pi...