Juliet Thornback and Delia Peel, founders of Thornback & Peel How would you describe yourselves? We are the founders of Thornback & Peel which we established in 2007 to create and sell beautiful, intricately screen-printed pieces for the home. We still design everything ourselves in our London based studio. We were introduced by a very clever …
As Sarah Callander-Beckett celebrates a centenary of her family’s custodianship of Combermere Abbey, Louisa Warde speaks with the lady herself and world-renowned interiors guru, Nina Campbell about the restoration of the Gothic masterpiece and leaving a legacy I am speaking to Nina and Sarah hours before a sell-out charity luncheon held at the Abbey in …
As a headstrong teenager, Nick Freeman did not have his heart set on becoming one of the country’s leading solicitors. Instead he wanted to emulate the success of Rory McIlroy and co. on the golf course. Given this intro and the research I had done prior to meeting Nick I expect the interview to …
Clare Nasir is no stranger to our screens having presented the weather for GMTV for many years. Today, I meet up with the self-confessed ‘glam geek’ in Wilmslow, her family’s new home town and discovers there’s much more than meets the media eye Clare, her husband Chris and their daughter Sienna moved up to Cheshire …
Russell Watson has experienced the extreme highs and deepest lows in the rollercoaster we call life. I meet the down-to-earth Lancashire lad with a few nuggets of inspiration to share From a bolt-cutter on a Youth Opportunities Programme to the People’s Tenor, Russell Watson has arguably done very well for himself. His journey, however, …
The Bolesworth Estate is a hidden gem of the Cheshire countryside. We take a stroll around the 6,000 acres estate with Nina Barbour, whose family has cared for the Estate since 1856 as she prepares for the inaugural Bolesworth International this June As Nina takes direction from our photographer in the gardens of Bolesworth Castle, …
Liz Taylor has navigated the highs and lows of the business world to create one of the UK’s leading event management companies, Taylor Lynn Corporation. I took tea with the lady herself in her home village of Hale… Liz Taylor has an excellent reputation, not only as a driven business woman with meticulous attention to …