Banning jargon? Er, inexecutable Prime Minister
... had only a limited number of options, essentially the church, the law and the army. Even medicine, at this point, was a barely respectable career, and the novels of Trollope and Thackeray are full of doctors with names like “Slasher” and “Filg
Can you shed light on ghostly graveyard orb?
Jill and Gordon researched old records and press reports to discover the lad had lived in nearby Filgrave rectory and was upset because his former Eton pupil father had been bullying him. Said Jill: “In those days people who committed suicide
Police investigate dog shot for chasing sheep
English Cocker Tess was in the care of an Olney dog day centre and being walked in Filgrave with five other pets when she escaped under a fence into a sheep field. Manor Farm stockman Simon Holden warned he would shoot if the dog walker did no
