56 h. ago 'I moved to the Clarkson's Farm town but now I have big regrets'

Chipping Norton has become popular with celebrities like Jeremy Clarkson and David Beckham, but one woman regrets moving to the Cotswolds town

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3 d. ago ‘She killed three husbands with this teapot’: Prue Leith, John Swinney and more pick their favourite museum

From a stray meteorite to an immersive coal pit, via the chance to sit on a ‘feeding chair’, famous fans tell us how they fell in love with the UK’s Museum of the Year finalistsIt’s rare to hear someone getting this excited over a teapot. But as Terry Deary tells me, with exactly the kind of relish you’d expect from the author of Horrible Histories, this particular drinks vessel belonged to the Victorian-era mass murderer Mary Ann Cotton. Believed to have killed 12 of her children, not to mention three husbands, she was finally caught after poisoning her stepson in 1872 with an arsenic-laced brew. “And in Beamish they’ve got the teapot!” says Deary. “I was blown away to hold it!”He’s talking about Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, an open-air site based in County Durham (just like Cotton herself, who was eventually hanged in Durham Gaol). Featuring an 1820s tavern, a 1900s pit village and colliery, a 1940s farm and a 1950s town – all populated by costumed staff – it’s somethi...

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3 d. ago ‘She killed three husbands with this teapot’: Prue Leith, Huw Stephens and more pick their favourite museum

From a stray meteorite to an immersive coal pit, via the chance to sit on a ‘feeding chair’, famous fans tell us how they fell in love with the UK’s Museum of the Year finalistsIt’s rare to hear someone getting this excited over a teapot. But as Terry Deary tells me, with exactly the kind of relish you’d expect from the author of Horrible Histories, this particular drinks vessel belonged to the Victorian-era mass murderer Mary Ann Cotton. Believed to have killed 12 of her children, not to mention three husbands, she was finally caught after poisoning her stepson in 1872 with an arsenic-laced brew. “And in Beamish they’ve got the teapot!” says Deary. “I was blown away to hold it!”He’s talking about Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, an open-air site based in County Durham (just like Cotton herself, who was eventually hanged in Durham Gaol). Featuring an 1820s tavern, a 1900s pit village and colliery, a 1940s farm and a 1950s town – all populated by costumed staff – it’s somethi...

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5 d. ago Clarkson's Farm star Harriet Cowan teases exciting next move in huge update

Harriet Cowan has become a fan favourite on Amazon Prime's Clarkson's Farm after farmer and TV host Jeremy Clarkson took her on as his new sidekick in the absence of Kaleb Cooper

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1 week ago Clarkson's Farm star's quiet life in affluent UK town where homes average £380k

He's a farmer and the star of Amazon Prime's Clarkson's Farm, who has a love-hate relationship with presenter Jeremy Clarkson - here's everything you need to know about him.

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2 w. ago Jeremy Clarkson spotted making huge move just weeks after 'dreadful' farm decision

Jeremy Clarkson was seen agonising over the decision to buy a new tractor in the final episode of the hit Amazon Prime show - but has now sold the green mega machine

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