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Different shades of opinion on colour of the year

THE colour of the year has been announced for 2023 – and you can’t miss it. Colour firm Pantone has…

Time to prune willows and dogwoods

by Sally Gregson. AT last March breezes in with cold nights, rainy weeks and brilliant days of warming sunshine. Winter…

More to gladioli than Dame Edna!

by Sally Gregson. IN many people’s minds gladioli will forever be associated with the gloriously daft Dame Edna Everage. Every performance…

Good prices in two-day sale

ACREMAN St Auctioneers & Valuers had an exciting two-day sale with many items exceeding their estimates. Lots included an antique…

Treasures from a true connoisseur

DUKE’S is honoured to have been instructed to sell the late Anthony and Judith du Boulay’s private collection. Anthony was…

British classic cars are all-white!

TWO white 1970s British sports car are to be entered in Charterhouse’s specialist auction of vintage and classic cars…

Mechanic’s paintings help good causes

by Nicci Brown. PAINTINGS by the late Michael Wells of Tarrant Rushton went on show in an exhibition at Tarrant…

Rhyming tales of a farmer’s wife

CASTLE Cary farmer’s wife Margaret Adams has entertained women’s institutes, gardening clubs, farming groups and the like around the…

Journey into French music

FIFI La Mer and Oliver Wilby promise an exciting and uplifting insight into 100 years of French Music when…

Love letter to sobriety – down at the village pub

STORYTELLING and song come together when Callum Patrick Hughes heads to The Gaggle of Geese in Buckland Newton this…