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Outside the front door of the historic mansion house (Photo © Jeff Gilbert / Alamy Stock Photo)

TV presenter Bamber Gascoigne on his radical plan to build “a mini Covent Garden” at his West Horsley mansion
Having sold £6.2m of its treasures to help save West Horsley Place after unexpectedly inheriting the 50-room Surrey mansion, TV presenter Bamber Gascoigne has embarked on an even more radical plan – to build “a mini Covent Garden” in the grounds

Mary Portas, Queen of Shops, dresses the Surrey woman
Mary Portas took the make-over to a whole new level with her dual attack on the nation’s frumpy forty-somethings and its ailing high streets. Now, the government’s shopping tsar is back in Surrey celebrating her clothing label’s first birthday, reviewing the regeneration plans and – in typically feisty form – confronting her critics head on