A post-surgery comeback, lively youngsters finding focus, big-character natives and a seven-win sweep shaped an action-packed week

There’s a last-minute change of huntsman for the Bedale opening meet, and hounds do their very best in less-than-ideal conditions

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Miss Julia White, horsewoman, sailor, farmer and haunter of my own farming life (such as it isn’t) first appeared in my life when I was 17, trying to get myself to agricultural college. Or was it when

Artist and designer Luke Edward Hall explains why the Cotswolds is an area that holds a special place in his heart

To mark half a century since Agatha Christie’s death, we welcome you inside the literary doyenne’s rural retreat – her sanctuary from the harsh world of press and public