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Taylor Swift has been seduced by the Lake District and our man on the ground is also impressed

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We’ve come on holiday by mistake, said Richard E. Grant in the cult movie classic Withnail And I, where two unemployed actors in late 1960s London head to Penrith for some rest and recuperation in a semi-derelict cottage. Half a century on from the film’s grim depiction of this corner of Cumbria, the only mistake … Read more

Middle-class mother living a Cotswolds idyll was seduced by a fraud who claimed he was a Rothschild

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Fifteen years ago, Christine Handy’s life was fizzing with opportunity and new beginnings.  At 40, she was financially secure and living mortgage-free in a handsome five-bedroom townhouse. A part-time job provided a balance to caring for three young children, and, divorced from her wealthy Cotswold landowning husband, she was happy in a new relationship. Today, … Read more