Several hundred spectators looked on as local and visiting sides slogged it out for the Sherston Cup in the village's gravelled-over High Street.

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Mr and Mrs Rolfe, who have eight children, have been told to return the garden to rough pasture or face paying to have it gravelled by the estate owners.

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Sometimes when she parked at the center, crunching into the gravelled space between the kitchen and the high black garden wall, where the stones were mossy and ferns grew in the cracks, she was really all right for a moment.

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