Duke of Wellington’s aide’s chest goes to auction

By Kenny Smith | May 11, 2018

An innocent-looking wooden chest belonging to a Scotsman is set to go to auction – and it has an amazing history. Holts Auctioneers are selling a campaign chest once owned by the Duke of Wellington’s aide-de-camp who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. It looked like an old wooden chest but painted…

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Book review: Road Without Signposts by Barbara Morris

By Kenny Smith | May 3, 2018

What’s the Story? Road without Signposts is a sequel to One Missed Step. The book tells the story of the continued drama within the Wilder family following the death of Kate’s mother. Only two months since Kate’s family was changed forever, she is now fighting an internal battle of what is right and what is…

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Head to head….

By Peter Ranscombe | April 14, 2011

Monday April 11th…. With Almost Blue and Commercial Express having won their previous starts it was bound to be a hotly contested race when they were forced into taking each other on at Morpeth yesterday, the trainer couldn’t split them and neither could the market which opened up with Uncle & Nephew as 6-4 joint favourites for…

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