What happened on 11th July 2023 - With your comments in the Web
On Tuesday, the Daily Mail informed us that Charles believes small farmers are the 'backbone of Britain' . And he will not desert them now that he is King. There was a faintly wistful edge to the celebrations a few days ago as the King was welcomed back to what is, in one sense, his home town. After all, if it wasn’t for him, this place wouldn’t exist. Up until the 1990s, Poundbury, in Dorset, was a patch of farmland, owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. The then Prince of Wales set about turning it into his vision of a modern town built on traditional lines. Modernist architects and town planners scoffed that it was twee, outdated and doomed to failure. Nearly 30 years later, it is thriving and expanding for the simple reason that people love living in a tidy, pretty town which looks like a Georgian film set, has more than 200 businesses, 2,500 jobs, 5,000 residents, a good school and neither a yellow line nor a traffic warden. Yet, the comments under that sugary article ...