... silver birch trees, and a crater with steep sloping sides in the centre of it . The whole area was thick with bracken and blackberry bushes, and it was of little use either for shooting or agricultural ground . The amazing thing about this small piece of ...

... first and only encounter with the Queen Mother, who is now 71. It deserves a wider audience. Dobson was 15 or so. and blackberrying in the woods on the local Gibside Estate. . . . I went with a school pal. Down the woodland path came a small girl on ...