A chilly start yesterday — which rapidly gave way to warmer conditions — saw mists rise around a cyclist in Richmond Park as, in the background, the sun rose behind London
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When Bill Simpson’s father returned from the First World War in 1917, he gave his son a teddy bear — called Rupert. Simpson went on to collect more than 250 teddies, the last of them just before his death in 2013. He named them all, and his wife made clothes for them. Simpson left the collection to the Milestone museum, which has put them on display in Mr Simpson’s Teddy Bear Museum — including Rupert, held by Nick Suffolk
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The summer weather so far — and Covid restrictions — may not have been much to sing about, but the cast of the musical Singin’ in the Rain are in full rehearsal for the show’s return this week at Sadler’s Wells theatre in London
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Janet Fraser, a stained glass artist, worked with the blacksmith Katie Ventress at her forge near Staithes in North Yorkshire to create a giant peacock, standing 6ft tall, for the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate — a project that took them 800 hours. The Great Yorkshire Peacock had 197 stained glass tail feathers, and sold for £20,000
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Sienna and Scarlett Marsh and their mother, Lauren, in the gardens of Hever Castle in Kent, Anne Boleyn’s childhood home
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Characters marking the 160th anniversary of Saltburn have appeared all over the North Yorkshire seaside town thanks to a secret group of knitters
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Calm conditions off Hunstanton in Norfolk yesterday made it ideal for a spot of messing about on the water
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It looks like an early start for the Wilkinson children on their way to the Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria, a gathering of Travellers that began in 1775
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Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones with a tapestry of his painting Beggars Banquet at Ashridge House, Hertfordshire
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