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Blight And Bureaucracy

Christopher Booker On a breathtaking May morning last week, Georgian Bath looked almost more b eautiful than ever. The meadows below Lansdown Crescent were a yellow carpet of b......

Mentmore Mania

Frank Norman 'All done at five thousand, five hundred pounds?' Peter Wilson, the chairman of Sotheby's, intoned as I walked into the Mentmore sale. 'Against you at the back, sir......