But the proposal to create the UK's first new national park in 15 years is at the centre of an "increasingly bitter" row ...

They lived in Venice all their lives. The writer knew than only when they were very old, but despite the genteel poverty that had surrounded them since the decline of the family's trading fleet ...

She lives in genteel poverty in a crumbling castle with her destitute author father and hippie stepmother, a woman much taken to stomping about naked in the rain called Topaz. (“Even if this is ...