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I'd Rather Live in Buxton

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Is it better to be rich and ugly or poor and beautiful?

I'd Rather Live in Buxton by Karen Shadd-Evelyn on Apple Books

From there, he established himself as arguably the most impressive driver of the season. Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso running together on the slowdown lap in Abu Dhabi, and then their impromptu three-car demonstration of donuts in front of the pits.

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It was a real crowd-pleaser that spoke of respect, camaraderie and entertainment — all good things that we want to see from our favourite sportsmen. Honda endured a world of pain during three years with McLaren.

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Their perseverance was paying off. The anticipation of the resumption of racing in China after the Red Bulls had got onto new tyres and were clearly primed for victory — but could they pull it off and then how would Verstappen and Ricciardo deal with each other?

There were several candidates for this: But all of those might have been expected to an extent. The real shock for me was how little progress McLaren made despite getting the Renault engine it coveted so much instead of the unloved Honda. We were fortunate enough to have a scheduled interview with Christian Horner for our podcast Beyond The Grid on the day the news broke.

Is it better to be rich and ugly or poor and beautiful?

The capitulation of Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel. They appeared to have it all in It was as though the stars had finally aligned to give the Scuderia its best shot at the title in the hybrid era. So to watch it all fall apart, to witness the tension within the team rise, the cracks start to appear and the dam to finally burst was really quite a surprise.

The real shock came from the hope, nay belief, that Ferrari had moved beyond the same stumbling blocks over which they lost their balance again. Sebastian Vettel throwing it off at Hockenheim when leading the race. I was laughed out of the office when I suggested Daniel Ricciardo and Renault teaming up for was a good possibility.

But it was still a gamble to jump from a race-winning team. So when he dropped the bombshell that he was upping sticks, it caught everyone — including Red Bull chiefs Christian Horner and Helmut Marko — off-guard. Not an easy thing to do in F1…. Opening-lap tangles, Alonso flat-out on two wheels, Red Bulls clashing, Vettel blowing it, Bottas blowing it literally and Hamilton taking an unlikely win. This one had all the ingredients that make a Grand Prix live long in the memory.

F1 craves competition and here, in the closing stages of a race, we had three drivers from three different teams in with a shout of winning. The tension was immense, like when you have that sick feeling in your stomach ahead of a big exam. This was F1 at its best. And to top it off, Kimi Raikkonen won it, ending his race winless streak.

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Already, some High Peak towns' high streets are hollowing out; a huge Tesco looms over Glossop and the planned regeneration of two of its town-centre mills, while welcomed by many, will further challenge the local shops, including the single remaining greengrocer, Nigel Sowerbutts, whose grandfather, Bill, was one of the original Gardeners' Question Time panellists.

Many people are reacting against the supermarkets and coming back to fresh, local suppliers, but we're under pressure.

As for house prices, it's a familiar story, with many people priced out of the backbone of the community. Charlotte Murrell, a nursery nurse in Glossop, told me that she and her partner of four years, factory worker Craig Robinson, both still at home with their parents, have despaired of buying somewhere together. Their difficulties have been exacerbated by the property indulgences of the "affluentials", who have found High Peak rich in buy-to-let terrain.

I'd Rather Live in Buxton by Karen Shadd-Evelyn on Apple Books

Buxton, which for all the grandeur of its Georgian crescent and Victorian Pavilion Gardens, is a rather hangdog spa town of late, is dusting itself off with the news that the University of Derby is to locate one of its campuses to the site of the town's old Devonshire Royal Hospital. However, the anticipated boon to Buxton life and culture is being accompanied by a gold rush, with buyers from all over the country scooping up terrace houses to rent to students.

It is really doing local people out of the property market. This isn't just a chocolate-box, country place. It's a living, working area and we need to make sure we keep it that way. So here is the challenge for High Peak and the growing number of areas like it: Warren Kaye, a Londoner through and through, and Jayne Marshall, a Mancunian, met at law school in York eight years ago. Neither imagined they would ever opt for the kind of semirural retreat they are buying in a converted mill-owner's house in the High Peak village of Hayfield.

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Senior conveyancers with the firm Countryside Property Lawyers, they are moving from the heavily marketed city-centre living in Manchester, where they bought a flat in a new block on the fringe of Salford, 20 minutes' walk to their jobs. It turned out not to be the urban hipster adventure that they had been promised in the brochure.

Most of the flats were owned by investors and rented out to students. Already we can see there is a real community here, so different from the city centre.

Arriving to sort out details one Sunday morning, they were delighted to find their soon-to-be neighbours from the six other apartments out on the lawn, eating breakfast together. The couple have, they say firmly, no regrets at all about leaving their loft behind: When Malcolm Smith, an airline pilot, moved north for a job flying holidaymakers out of Manchester airport, he briefly rented a house in Heald Green, a featureless patch of Stockport suburbia. He didn't like it very much: Karen, her husband and their daughters currently live in London, Ontario.

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