Items including statues of angels and teddy bears were left in a pile at the edge of Upper Lambourn Cemetery.

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Worst affected are Aldbourne in Wiltshire, Compton and Lambourn in Berkshire, Hambleden in Buckinghamshire, and Playhatch, Standlake and Carterton in Oxfordshire.

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Oaksey House in Lambourn currently gives free treatment for up to 10 injured jockeys and its subsidised gym has 150 members.

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Residents will be unable to move into six of the homes for several months after the raid in Lambourn Road on the Rose Hill estate.

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"The people in the team didn't like the biscuits, but it just about kept them going, " said Nick Lambourn, director of exploration and travel at Christie's.

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After retiring from racing, he became a trainer at Lambourn, but his racing life came to an abrupt halt in October 1992, when the Jockey Club warned him off (banned him) for 10 years.

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He started with 10 horses in a yard at Lambourn but moved in 1999 to Newbury to West Ilsley (the prestigious stables once owned by the Queen) and now has more than 18 times that number.

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Back home now in the beautiful village of Childrey, part of the Lambourn "valley of the racehorse", Fitzgerald bemoans heavy summer rain which last July led to his home being flooded - the sand bags are out again.

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He always had an interest in horse racing during his football career and, after retiring from professional football he began working as an assistant trainer, before becoming a licensed trainer in his own right in 1990 with 10 horses in his care in Lambourn.

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