At refined Richmond pop into 17th-century Ham House, then Richmond Park, hunting ground of Henry VIII who, thankfully, did not finish off all the deer - hundreds still roam.

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Detailed examination has also compared the similarity between the dress worn by Susannah in the reworked version and that on Charlotte Walpole, Countess of Dysart, credited to Reynolds, which hangs at the National Trust's Ham House near Richmond.

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Mrs Watson, who now lives with her husband in her new four-bedroom house in Ham Green, near Bristol, supports moves to make sellers' packs compulsory.

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Sometimes it was just conscientiousness, as in one acclaimed restaurant where lunch was pig's head followed by house-cured ham, followed by blanquette of goat.

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"The first incident was when the big, wooden cross, wrapped in ham, fell into the house after a knock at the door, " said Mr Alam.

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Warner has previously been outspoken over Gold's suggestion that a separate, much smaller venue should be built to house future athletics events, allowing West Ham to lease the Olympic Stadium.

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His elf name is Snowball and claims to ham it up with the children, sometimes tumbling down the path to Santa's house.

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