The glory of Wiltshire is its antiquity, the beauty of its landscape and the old-fashioned charm of its villages and market towns. But as the ancient monuments and the settlements show, this tranquil landscape has been used by human beings - farmed, worshipped, lived in - for all these long years.
The long-brewing political crisis of the grooming gangs has finally broken over Westminster, which is a good thing. I wish the Government were doing more to empower the local enquiries they are setting up (instead of the single national enquiry the Conservatives are calling for), but it’s good