WEDNESDAY 28 JANUARY

JON RICHARDSON on restoring a rural inn to its former glory

THE CLASSIC CAR world sometimes behaves as if Friedhelm Loh has come out of nowhere, an unheard-of collector who has burst onto the scene since Covid, waving around wads of cash and buying up all the

I SUCCUMBED. OR, as younger people say, I caved. I’d been looking at my Phantom’s bodywork (the victim of a blow-over respray prior to my renewed ownership, after a white ‘wrap’ was removed) and alway

Tony bought this Zephyr for £15 in 1975 – but not to preserve it. Little did he know that it would become his show-stopping classic…

“I bloody love pubs. I love a city pub, I love a sports bar, I love country pubs,” declares comedian Jon Richardson, which might explain his latest project. Jon, 43, has joined forces with the locals