REFURBISHMENT: The New Chequers in Astwood Road in Worcester has been freshened up with a £300,000 revamp (Image: Martin Humby) The rear courtyard has become an attractive 100-seater alfresco spot ...

‘I like people to look as natural and as physically at ease as animals, as Pluto my whippet,’ Lucian Freud revealed in 2002. Introduced to whippets by his lover and frequent sitter Susanna Chancellor, ...