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She sought to banish polo's elitist image, and on Channel 4’s Faking It turned a bicycle courier covered in tattoos into a passable player
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Julian Dunkerton, 56, has begun legal action against Dowdeswell Estates Building over work on his Cotswolds property development and hotel business.
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With art and maps by Shanawdithit The pencil drawings are intricate: slender dark lines marching carefully across the pages, glimpses into a people long believed extinguished. Shanawdithit, a Beothuk woman in her 20s, drew them nearly two centuries ago in the months before she died. Only a dozen of her drawings are known to exist today. Five are maps of the lake in central Newfoundland, today known as Red Indian Lake, where Shanawdithit’s people made camp. But they are not mainly cartographic. Instead, they are accounts of what Shanawdithit saw: where heavily armed British settlers captured...
There are pioneering moments which have such an impact on humankind that they become immortalized in our collective memory. The moment Thomas Edison patented the lightbulb, or Marie Curie became the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, or Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. Then there are other, quirkier, lesser-known world firsts from the Cotswolds which could be just likely to stick in people’s minds if only they heard about them. World Woolsack champion In 2007, Pete Roberts set the world’s fastest men’s time in the World Woolsack Championships in Tetbury with 45.94 secon...