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Property industry hails demise of HIPs By Hugh Fort Politicians', solicitors and estate agents have all welcomed the scrapping of “unnecessary and expensive” Home Information Packs (HIPs). The new Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition Government has announced it is going to scrap the packs, which were not welcomed by the property industry when they were introduced.

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they really did not live up to expectations.”

They contained information about the local authority, drainage and water, as well as sustainability information and sale statements.

He added he feels for the people who will lose work as a result of the move, however described it as a “business built on sand” because there was such scepticism about the value of HIPs from the start.

Recent homebuyers who have had to fork out for the packs might not be too pleased with The new Government has decided to keep the announcement, but property experts say it the Energy Performance Certificate, which is a positive move. was part of the HIP. Neal MacKenzie, managing director of Michael Hardy estate agents, which has a branch in Crowthorne, said he believes the loss of HIPs will be a good thing.

The certificates show how energy efficient houses are and advises ways to improve on energy saving.

He said: “From our point of view the effect is neutral as a company.

Steve Jones, managing director of Richard Worth estate agents, which has a branch in High Street, Bracknell, described the news of HIPs being scrapped as “fantastic”.

“To the public, it means we can take a house on a Monday morning and we can be offering it to somebody by Monday afternoon.” However, he said he does not agree with some claims the scrapping will release the housing market.

He said: “For us there is no loss of revenue [because we do not provide HIPs] and no time delay in getting a property to market. “Also, vendors do not have to waste money on a wasted document.

The town’s politicians have also praised the Decision. Bracknell MP Phillip Lee, said: “I support the abolition of Home Information Packs. They are unnecessary and expensive; they increase the hassle and cost of selling homes.” Windsor MP Adam Afryie, whose constituency contains Binfield and Warfield, said: “Thousands of people will be relieved that they are able to save several hundred pounds should they decide to sell their home. “This decision sends a clear message of encouragement to people thinking of selling their home that they can put it on the market with less cost and hassle; that can only be a good thing.”

Neal added: “I do not really follow that logic. “The whole idea of HIPs was they were All it means is more housing will come on the meant to provide information to a purchaser market, it doesn’t mean more will sell. before he makes an offer. “The effect could be house prices will flatten out because there is more supply than demand.

“I would suggest no more than five per cent have ever asked to see a copy of a HIP before making an offer, if any at all.”

“What has been keeping them going is a lack Peter Coles, managing director of Romans of supply with fairly strong demand.” estate agents, which has branches in Warfield, Bracknell and Crowthorne, also He added his office has received numerous welcomed the news, saying it would speed up calls from people who have paid for HIPs in the home buying process. the last two or three days asking for advice on whether they can get their money back. He said: “The HIPs were lauded as something that was intended to make the HIPs were a set of documents providing home moving, buying and selling process homebuyers with all the key information on a less stressful and run more smoothly, but

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The Door in the Wall By H. G. Wells

And it came into his life quite early, when he was a little fellow between five and six. I remember how, as he sat making his confession to me with a slow gravity, he reasoned and One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wal- reckoned the date of it. "There was," he said, "a crimson Virlace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time ginia creeper in it - all in one bright uniform crimson, in a I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. clear amber sunshine against a white wall. That came into the impression somehow, though I don't clearly remember how, and there were horse-chestnut leaves upon the clean He told it me with such direct simplicity of conviction that I pavement outside the green door. They were blotched yellow could not do otherwise than believe in him. But in the morning, in my own flat, I woke to a different atmosphere; and as I and green, you know, not brown nor dirty, so that they must lay in bed and recalled the things he had told me, stripped of have been new fallen. I take it that means October. I look out for horse-chestnut leaves every year and I ought to know. the glamour of his earnest slow voice, denuded of the focused, shaded table light, the shadowy atmosphere that "If I'm right in that, I was about five years and four months wrapped about him and me, and the pleasant bright things, old." the dessert and glasses and napery of the dinner we had shared, making them for the time a bright little world quite cut He was, he said, rather a precocious little boy - he learned to off from everyday realities, I saw it all as frankly incredible. "He was mystifying!" I said, and then: "How well he did it!...It talk at an abnormally early age, and he was so sane and "old isn't quite the thing I should have expected of him of all peo- -fashioned", as people say, that he was permitted an amount of initiative that most children scarcely attain by seven or ple, to do well." eight. His mother died when he was two, and he was under the less vigilant and authoritative care of a nursery governAfterwards as I sat up in bed and sipped my morning tea, I ess. His father was a stern, pre-occupied lawyer, who gave found myself trying to account for the flavour of reality that perplexed me in his impossible reminiscences, by supposing him little attention and expected great things of him. For all his brightness he found life grey and dull, I think. And one they did in some way suggest, present, convey - I hardly day he wandered. know which word to use - experiences it was otherwise impossible to tell. He could not recall the particular neglect that enabled him to get away, nor the course he took among the West KensingWell, I don't resort to that explanation now. I have got over ton roads. All that had faded among the incurable blurs of my intervening doubts. I believe now, as I believed at the memory. But the white wall and the green door stood out moment of telling, that Wallace did to the very best of his ability strip the truth of his secret for me. But whether he him- quite distinctly. self saw, or only thought he saw, whether he himself was the As his memory of that childish experience ran, he did at the possessor of an inestimable privilege or the victim of a fantastic dream, I cannot pretend to guess. Even the facts of his very first sight of that door experience a peculiar emotion, and attraction, a desire to get to the door and open it and death, which ended my doubts for ever, throw no light on walk in. And at the same time he had the clearest conviction that. that it was unwise or it was wrong of him - he could not tell which - to yield to this attraction. He insisted upon it as a That much the reader must judge for himself. curious thing that he knew from the very beginning - unless memory has played him the queerest trick - that the door was I forget now what chance comment or criticism of mine unfastened, and that he could go in as he chose. moved so reticent a man to confide in me. He was, i think, defending himself against an imputation of slackness and I seem to see the figure of that little boy, drawn and repelled. unreliability I had made in relation to a great public movement, in which he had disappointed me. But he plunged sud- And it was very clear in his mind, too, though why it should be so was never explained, that his father would be very denly. "I have," he said, "a preoccupation -" angry if he went in through that door. "I know," he went on, after a pause, "I have been negligent. Wallace described all these moments of hesitation to me with The fact is - it isn't a case of ghosts of apparitions - but - it's the utmost particularity. He went right past the door, and an odd thing to tell of, Redmond - I am haunted. I am then, with his hands in his pockets and making an infantile haunted by something - that rather takes the light out of attempt to whistle, strolled right along beyond the end of the things, that fills me with longings..." wall. There he recalls a number of mean dirty shops, and particularly that of a plumber and decorator with a dusty disHe paused, checked by that English shyness that so often order of earthenware pipes, sheet lead, ball taps, pattern overcomes us when we speak of moving or grave or beautibooks of wallpaper, and tins of enamel. He stood pretending ful things. "You were at Saint Athelstan's all through," he to examine these things and coveting, passionately desiring, said, and for a moment that seemed to me quite irrelevant. the green door. "Well" - and he paused. Then very haltingly at first, but afterwards more easily, he began to tell of the thing that was hid- Then, he said, he had a gust of emotion. He made a run for den in his life, the haunting memory of a beauty and happiit, lest hesitation should grip him again; he went plumb with ness that filled his heart with insatiable longings, that made outstretched hand through the green door and let it slam all the interests and spectacle of worldly life seem dull and behind him. And so, in a trice, he came into the garden that tedious and vain to him. has haunted all his life.

hesitations and fear, forgot discretion, forgot all the intimate realities of this life. I became in a moment a very glad and wonder-happy little boy - in another world. It was a world with a different quality, a warmer, more penetrating, and mellower light, with a faint clear gladness in its air, and wisps of suntouched cloud in the blueness of its sky. And before me ran this long wide path, invitingly, with weedless beds on either side, rich with untended flowers, and these two great panthers. I put my little hands fearlessly on their soft fur, and caressed their round ears and the sensitive corners under their ears, and played with them, and it was as though they welcomed me home. There was a keen sense of homecoming in my mind, and when presently a tall, fair girl appeared in the pathway and came to meet me, smiling, and said, "Well?" to me, and lifted me and kissed me and put me down and led me by the hand, there was no amazement, but only an impression of delightful rightness, of being reminded of happy things that had in some strange way been overlooked. There were broad red steps, I remember, that came into view between spikes of delphinium, and up these we went to a great avenue between very old and shady dark trees. All down this avenue, you know, between the red chapped stems, were marble seats of honour and statuary, and very tame and friendly white doves. "Along this cool avenue my girl-friend led me, looking down I recall the pleasant lines, the finely-modelled chin of her sweet kind face - asking me questions in a soft, agreeable voice, and telling me things, pleasant things, I know, though what they were I was never able to recall.... Presently a Capuchin monkey, very clean, with a fur of reddy brown and kindly hazel eyes, came down a tree to us and ran beside me, looking up at me and grinning, and presently leaped to my shoulder. So we two went on our way in great happiness." He paused. "Go on," I said. "I remember little things. We passed an old man musing among laurels, I remember, and a place gay with parakeets, and came through a broad shaded colonnade to a spacious cool palace, full of pleasant fountains, full of beautiful things, full of the quality and promise of heart's desire. And there were many things and many people, some that still seem to stand out clearly and some that are vaguer; but all these people were beautiful and kind. In some way - I don't know how - it was conveyed to me that they all were kind to me, glad to have me there, and filling me with gladness by their gestures, by the touch of their hands, by the welcome and love in their eyes. Yes-" He mused for a while. "Playmates I found there. That was much to me, because I was a lonely little boy. They played delightful games in a grass-covered court where there was a sundial set about with flowers. And as one played one loved....

"But - it's odd - there's a gap in my memory. I don't remember the games we played. I never remembered. Afterwards, as a child, I spent long hours trying, even with tears, to recall the form of that happiness. I wanted to play it all over again in my nursery - by myself. No! All I remember is the happiness and two dear playfellows who were most with me.... Then presently came a sombre woman, wearing a soft long robe of pale purple, who carried a book, and beckoned and took me aside with her into a gallery above a hall - though my playmates were loath to have me go, and ceased their game and stood watching as I was carried away. 'Come back to us!' they cried. 'Come back to us soon!' I looked up at her face, but she heeded them not at all. Her face was very genNow that I have the clue to it, the thing seems written visibly It was very difficult for Wallace to give me his full sense of tle and grave. She took me to a seat in the gallery, and I in his face. I have a photograph in which that look of detach- that garden into which he came. stood beside her, ready to look at her book as she opened it ment has been caught and intensified. It reminds me of what upon her knee. The pages fell open. She pointed, and I There was something in the very air of it that exhilarated, that looked, marvelling, for in the living pages of that book I saw a woman once said of him - a woman who had loved him gave one a sense of lightness and good happening and well- myself; it was a story about myself, and in it were all the greatly. "Suddenly," she said, "the interest goes out of him. He forgets you. He doesn't care a rap for you - under his very being; there was something in the sight of it that made all its things that had happened to me since ever I was born.... colour clean and perfect and subtly luminous. In the instant nose..." of coming into it one was exquisitely glad - as only in rare "It was wonderful to me, because the pages of that book Yet the interest was not always out of him, and when he was moments, and when one is young and joyful one can be glad were not pictures, you understand, but realities." in this world. And everything was beautiful there... holding his attention to a thing Wallace could contrive to be an extremely successful man. His career, indeed, is set with Wallace paused gravely - looked at me doubtfully. Wallace mused before he went on telling me. "You see," he successes. He left me behind him long ago; he soared up "Go on," I said. "I understand." over my head, and cut a figure in the world that I couldn't cut said, with the doubtful inflection of a man who pauses at in- anyhow. He was still a year short of forty, and they say now credible things, "there were two great panthers there.... Yes, spotted panthers. And I was not afraid. There was a long "They were realities - yes, they must have been; people that he would have been in office and very probably in the wide path with marble-edged flower borders on either side, moved and things came and went in them; my dear mother, new Cabinet if he had lived. At school he always beat me and these two huge velvety beasts were playing there with a whom I had near forgotten; then my father, stern and upright, without effort - as it were by nature. We were at school toball. One looked up and came towards me, a little curious as the servants, the nursery, all the familiar things of home. gether at Saint Athelstan's College in West Kensington for Then the front door and the busy streets, with traffic to and almost all our school time. He came into the school as my co it seemed. It came right up to me, rubbed its soft round ear very gently against the small hand I held out, and purred. It fro. I looked and marvelled, and looked half doubtfully again -equal, but he left far above me, in a blaze of scholarships was, I tell you, an enchanted garden. I know. And the size? into the woman's face and turned the pages over, skipping and brilliant performance. Yet I think I made a fair average this and that, to see more of this book and more, and so at running. And it was at school I heard first of the "Door in the Oh! it stretched far and wide, this way and that. I believe there were hills far away. Heaven knows where West Kenlast I came to myself hovering and hesitating outside the Wall" - that I was to hear of a second time only a month besington had suddenly got to. And somehow it was just like green door in the long white wall, and felt again the conflict fore his death. coming home. and the fear. To him at least the Door in the Wall was a real door, leading "You know, in the very moment the door swung to behind me, I forgot the road with its fallen chestnut leaves, its cabs "'And next?' I cried, and would have turned on, but the cool through a real wall to immortal realities. Of that I am now and tradesmen's carts, I forgot the sort of gravitational pull hand of the grave woman delayed me. quite assured. back to the discipline and obedience of home, I forgot all

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"'Next?' I insisted, and struggled gently with her hand, pulling "Did you ever play North-West Passage with me? . . . No, of up her fingers with all my childish strength, and as she course you didn't come my way! yielded and the page came over she bent down upon me like a shadow and kissed my brow. "It was the sort of game," he went on, "that every imaginative child plays all day. The idea was the discovery of a NorthWest Passage to school. The way to school was plain "But the page did not show the enchanted garden, nor the enough; the game consisted of finding some way that wasn't panthers, nor the girl who had led me by the hand, nor the playfellows who had been so loath to let me go. It showed a plain, starting off ten minutes early in some almost hopeless long grey street in West Kensington, in that chill hour of after- direction, and working my way round through unaccustomed streets to my goal. And one day I got entangled among some noon before the lamps are lit; and I was there, a wretched rather low-class streets on the other side of Camden Hill, and little figure, weeping aloud, for all that I could do to restrain I began to think that for once the game would be against me myself, and I was weeping because I could not return to my dear playfellows who had called after me, 'Come back to us! and that I should get to school late. I tried rather desperately a street that seemed a cul-de-sac, and found a passage at Come back to us soon!' I was there. This was no page in a book, but harsh reality; that enchanted place and the retrain- the end. I hurried through that with renewed hope. 'I shall do it yet,' I said, and passed a row of frowsy little shops that ing hand of the grave mother at whose knee I stood had were inexplicably familiar to me, and behold! There was my gone - whither had they gone?" long white wall and the green door that led to the enchanted He halted again, and remained for a time staring into the fire. garden! "Oh! The woefulness of that return!" he murmured.

poser? - who said it was the best lie he had ever heard. But at the same time there was a really painful undertow of shame at telling what I felt was indeed a sacred secret. That beast Fawcett made a joke about the girl in green -"

"The thing whacked upon me suddenly. Then, after all, that garden, that wonderful garden, wasn't a dream!"

Wallace's voice sank with the keen memory of that shame. "I pretended not to hear," he said. "Well, then Carnaby suddenly called me a young liar, and disputed with me when I said the thing was true. I said I knew where to find the green door, could lead them all there in ten minutes. Carnaby became outrageously virtuous, and said I'd have to - and bear out my words or suffer. Did you ever have Carnaby twist your arm? Then perhaps you'll understand how it went with me. I swore my story was true. There was nobody in the school then to save a chap from Carnaby, though Crawshaw put in a word or so. Carnaby had got his game. I grew excited and red-eared, and a little frightened. I behaved altogether like a silly little chap, and the outcome of it all was that instead of starting alone for my enchanted garden, I led the way presently - cheeks flushed, ears hot, eyes smarting, and my soul one burning misery and shame - for a party of six mocking, curious, and threatening schoolfellows.

He paused.

"We never found the white wall and the green door...."

"Well?" I said, after a minute or so. "Poor little wretch I was! - brought back to this grey world again! As I realized the fullness of what had happened to me, I gave way to quite ungovernable grief. And the shame and humiliation of that public weeping and my disgraceful homecoming remain with me still. I see again the benevolentlooking old gentleman in gold spectacles that stopped and spoke to me - prodding me first with his umbrella. 'Poor little chap,' said he; 'and are you lost then?' - And me a London boy of five and more! And he must needs bring in a kindly young policeman and make a crowd of me, and so march me home. Sobbing, conspicuous, and frightened, I came back from the enchanted garden to the steps of my father's house.

"I suppose my second experience with the green door marks the world of difference there is between the busy life of a schoolboy and the infinite leisure of a child. Anyhow, this second time I didn't for a moment think of going in straight away. You see -. For one thing, my mind was full of the idea of getting to school in time - set on not breaking my record for punctuality. I must surely have felt some little desire at least to try the door - yes. I must have felt that.... But I seem to remember the attraction of the door mainly as another obstacle to my overmastering determination to get to school. I was immensely interested by this discovery I had made, of course - I went on with my mind full of it - but I went on. It "That is as well as I can remember my vision of that garden - didn't check me. I ran past, tugging out my watch, found I the garden that haunts me still. Of course, I can convey noth- had ten minutes still to spare, and then I was going downhill into familiar surroundings. I got to school, breathless, it is ing of that indescribable quality of translucent unreality, that true, and wet with perspiration, but in time. I can remember difference from the common things of experience that hung hanging up my coat and hat.... Went right by it and left it beabout it all; but that - that is what happened. If it was a dream, I am sure it was a day-time and altogether extraordi- hind me. Odd, eh?" nary dream.... Him! - Naturally there followed a terrible quesHe looked at me thoughtfully. "Of course I didn't know then tioning, by my aunt, my father, the nurse, the governess that it wouldn't always be there. Schoolboys have limited everyone.... imaginations. I suppose I thought it was an awfully jolly thing "I tried to tell them, and my father gave me my first thrashing to have it there, to know my way back to it; but there was the school tugging at me. I expect I was a good deal distraught for telling lies. When afterwards I tried to tell my aunt, she and inattentive that morning, recalling what I could of the punished me again for my wicked persistence. Then, as I said, everyone was forbidden to listen to me, to hear a word beautiful strange people I should presently see again. Oddly about it. Even my fairy-tale books were taken away from me enough I had no doubt in my mind that they would be glad to for a time - because I was too 'imaginative'. Eh! Yes, they did see me.... Yes, I must have thought of the garden that morning just as a jolly sort of place to which one might resort in that! My father belonged to the old school.... And my story was driven back upon myself. I whispered it to my pillow - my the interludes of a strenuous scholastic career. pillow that was often damp and salt to my whispering lips with childish tears. And I added always to my official and less "I didn't go that day at all. The next day was a half-holiday, fervent prayers this one heartfelt request: 'Please God I may and that may have weighed with me. Perhaps, too, my state of inattention brought down impositions upon me, and dream of the garden. O! take me back to my garden.' Take docked the margin of time necessary for the detour. I don't me back to my garden! I dreamt often of the garden. I may have added to it, I may have changed it; I do not know.... All know. What I do know is that in the meantime the enchanted garden was so much upon my mind that I could not keep it to this, you understand, is an attempt to reconstruct from fragmyself. mentary memories a very early experience. Between that and the other consecutive memories of my boyhood there is a gulf. A time came when it seemed impossible I should ever "I told - what was his name? - a ferrety-looking youngster we used to call Squiff." speak of that wonder glimpse again." I asked an obvious question.

"Young Hopkins," said I.

"No," he said, "I don't remember that I ever attempted to find my way back to the garden in those early years. This seems odd to me now, but I think that very probably a closer watch was kept on my movements after this misadventure to prevent my going astray. No, it wasn't till you knew me that I tried for the garden again. And I believe there was a period incredible as it seems now - when I forgot the garden altogether - when I was about eight or nine it may have been. Do you remember me as a kid at Saint Athelstan's?"

"Hopkins it was. I did not like telling him. I had a feeling that in some way it was against the rules to tell him, but I did. He was walking part of the way home with me; he was talkative, and if we had not talked about the enchanted garden we should have talked of something else, and it was intolerable to me to think about any other subject. So I blabbed.

"Rather!" "I didn't show any signs, did I, in those days of having a secret dream?" 2 He looked up with a sudden smile.

"You mean - " "I mean I couldn't find it. I would have found it if I could. "And afterwards when I could go alone I couldn't find it. I never found it. I seem now to have been always looking for it through my schoolboy days, but I never came upon it never." "Did the fellows - make it disagreeable?" "Beastly....Carnaby held a council over me for wanton lying. I remember how I sneaked home and upstairs to hide the marks of my blubbering. But when I cried myself to sleep at last it wasn't for Carnaby, but for the garden, for the beautiful afternoon I had hoped for, for the sweet friendly women and the waiting playfellows, and the game I had hoped to learn again, that beautiful forgotten game.... "I believed firmly that if I had not told - ... I had bad times after that - crying at night and wool-gathering by day. For two terms I slacked and had bad reports. Do you remember? Of course you would! It was you - youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re beating me in mathematics that brought me back to the grind again." 3

For a time my friend stared silently into the red heart of the fire. Then he said: "I never saw it again until I was seventeen. "It leaped upon me for the third time - as I was driving to Paddington on my way to Oxford and a scholarship. I had just one momentary glimpse. I was leaning over the apron of my hansom smoking a cigarette, and no doubt thinking myself no end of a man of the world, and suddenly there was the door, the wall, the clear sense of unforgettable and still attainable things. "We clattered by - I too taken by surprise to stop my cab until we were well past and round a corner. Then I had a queer moment, a double and divergent movement of my will: I tapped the little door in the roof of the cab, and brought my arm down to pull out my watch. 'Yes, sir!' said the cabman smartly. 'Er - well - it's nothing,' I cried. 'My mistake! We haven't much time! Go on!' And he went on...

"I got my scholarship. And the night after I was told of that I sat over my fire in my little upper room, my study, in my father's house, with his praise - his rare praise - and his sound counsels ringing in my ears, and I smoked my favourite pipe "Well, he told my secret. The next day in the play interval I - the formidable bulldog of adolescence - and thought of that found myself surrounded by half a dozen bigger boys, half door in the long white wall. 'If I had stopped,' I thought, 'I teasing, and wholly curious to hear more of the enchanted should have missed my scholarship, I should have missed garden. There was that big Fawcett - you remember him? Oxford - muddled all the fine career before me! I begin to see And Carnaby and Morley Reynolds. You weren't there by any things better!' I fell to musing deeply, but I did not doubt then chance? No, I think I should have remembered if you were.... this career of mine was a thing that merited sacrifice. "Those dear friends and that clear atmosphere seemed very "A boy is a creature of odd feelings. I was, I really believe, in sweet to me, very fine but remote. My grip was fixing now spite of my secret self-disgust a little flattered to have the upon the world. I saw another door opening - the door of my attention of these big fellows. I remember particularly a mocareer." ment of pleasure caused by the praise of Crawshaw - you remember Crawshaw major, the son of Crawshaw the com-

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He stared again into the fire. Its red light picked out a stubborn strength in his face for just one flickering moment, and then it vanished again.

some definite word from Gurker, but was hampered by Ralphs' presence. I was using the best power of my brain to keep that light and careless talk not too obviously directed to the point that concerned me. I had to. Ralphs' behaviour "Well," he said and sighed, "I have served that career. I have since has more than justified my caution... Ralphs, I knew, done - much work, much hard work. But I have dreamt of the would leave us beyond the Kensington High Street, and then enchanted garden a thousand dreams, and seen its door, or I could surprise Gurker by a sudden frankness. One has sometimes to resort to these little devices.... And then it was at least glimpsed its door, four times since then. Yes - four that int he margin of my field of vision I became aware once times. for a while this world was so bright and interesting, more of the white wall, the green door before us down the seemed so full of meaning and opportunity, that the half efroad. faced charm of the garden was by comparison gentle and remote. Who wants to pat panthers on the way to dinner with "We passed it talking. I passed it. I can still see the shadow pretty women and distinguished men? I came down to Lonof Gurker's marked profile, his opera hat tilted forward over don from Oxford, a man of bold promise that I have done something to redeem. Something - and yet there have been his prominent nose, the many folds of his neck wrap going before my shadow and Ralphs' as we sauntered past. disappointments.... "Twice I have been in love - I will not dwell on that - but once, as I went to some one who, I knew, doubted whether I dared to come, I took a short cut at a venture through an unfrequented road near Earl's Court, and so happened on a white wall and a familiar green door. 'Odd!' said I to myself, 'but I thought this place was on Camden Hill. It's the place I never could find somehow - like counting Stonehenge - the place of that queer daydream of mine.' And I went by it intent upon my purpose. It had no appeal to me that afternoon. "I had just a moment's impulse to try the door, three steps aside were needed at the most - though I was sure enough in my heart that it would open to me - and then I thought that doing so might delay me on the way to that appointment n which my honour was involved. Afterwards I was sorry for my punctuality - I might at least have peeped in and waved a hand to those panthers, but I knew enough by this time not to seek again belatedly that which is not found by seeking. Yes, that time made me very sorry....

half convinced that he had, in truth, an abnormal gift, and a sense, something - I know not what - that in the guise of a wall and door offered him an outlet, a secret and peculiar passage of escape into another and altogether more beautiful world. At any rate, you will say, it betrayed him in the end. But did it betray him? There you touch the inmost mystery of these dreamers, these men of vision and the imagination. We see our world fair and common, the hoarding and the pit. By our daylight standard he walked out of security into darkness, danger, and death. But did he see like that?

The End.

"I passed within twenty inches of the door. 'If I say good night to them, and go in,' I asked myself, 'what will happen?' And I was all a-tingle for that word with Gurker. "I could not answer that question in the tangle of my other problems. 'They will think me mad,' I thought, 'And suppose I vanish now? - Amazing disappearance of a prominent politician!' That weighed with me. A thousand inconceivable petty worldlinessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weighed with me in that crisis." Then he turned on me with a sorrowful smile, and, speaking slowly, "Here I am!" he said. "Here I am!" he repeated, "and my chance has gone from me. Three times in one year the door has been offered me that door that goes into peace, into delight, into a beauty beyond dreaming, a kindness no man on earth can know. And I have rejected it, Redmond, and it has gone-" "How do you know?"

"Years of hard work after that, and never a sight of the door. It's only recently it has come back to me. With it there has come a sense as though some thin tarnish had spread itself over my world. I began to think of it as a sorrowful and bitter thing that I should never see that door again. Perhaps I was suffering a little from overwork - perhaps it was what I've heard spoken of as the feeling of forty. I don't know. But certainly the keen brightness that makes effort easy has gone out of things recently and that just at a time - with all these new political developments - when I ought to be working. Odd, isn't it? But I do begin to find life toilsome, its rewards, as I come near them, cheap. I began a little while ago to want the garden quite badly. Yes - and I've seen it three times." "The garden?"

"I know. I know. I am left now to work it out, to stick to the tasks that held me so strongly when my moments came. You say I have success - this vulgar, tawdry, irksome, envied thing. I have it." He had a walnut in his big hand. "If that was my success," he said, and crushed it, and held it out for me to see. "Let me tell you something Redmond. This loss is destroying me. For two months, for ten weeks nearly now, I have done no work at all, except the most necessary and urgent duties. My soul is full of inappeasable regrets. At nights - when it is less likely I shall be recognized - I go out. I wander. Yes, I wonder what people would think of that if they knew. A Cabinet Minister, the responsible head of that most vital of all departments, wandering alone - grieving - sometimes near audibly lamenting - for a door, for a garden!"

"No - the door! And I haven't gone in!" 4 He leaned over the table to me, with an enormous sorrow in his voice as he spoke. "Thrice I have had my chance - thrice! If ever that door offers itself to me again, I swore, I will go in, I can see now his rather pallid face, and the unfamiliar somout of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of bre fire that had come into his eyes. I see him very vividly these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return. This time I tonight. I sit recalling his words, his tones, and last evening's will stay....I swore it, and when the time came I didn't go. Westminster Gazette still lies on my sofa, containing the notice of his death. At lunch today the club was busy with his "Three times in one year I have passed that door and failed to enter. Three times in the last year. death. We talked of nothing else. "The first time was on the night of the snatch division on the Tenants' Redemption Bill, on which the Government was saved by a majority of three. You remember? No one on our side - perhaps very few on the opposite side - expected the end that night. Then the debate collapsed like egg-shells. I and Hotchkiss were dining with his cousin at Brentford; we were both unpaired, and we were called up by telephone, and set off at once in his cousin's motor. We got in barely in time, and on the way we passed my wall and door - livid in the moonlight, blotched with hot yellow as the glare of our lamps lit it, but unmistakable. 'My God!' cried I. 'What?' said Hotchkiss. 'Nothing!' I answered, and the moment passed.

They found his body very early yesterday morning in a deep excavation near East Kensington Station. It is one of two shafts that have been made in connexion with an extension of the railway southward. It is protected from the intrusion of the public by a hoarding upon the high road, in which a small doorway has been cut for the convenience of some of the workmen who live in that direction. The doorway was left unfastened through a misunderstanding between two gangers, and through it he made his way.

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo

My mind is darkened with questions and riddles. "'I've made a great sacrifice,' I told the whip as I got in. 'They all have,' he said, and hurried by. "I do not see how I could have done otherwise then. And the next occasion was as I rushed to my father's bedside to bid that stern old man farewell. Then, too, the claims of life were imperative. Bt the third time was different; it happened a week ago. It fills me with hot remorse to recall it. I was with Gurker and Ralphs - it's no secret now, you know, that I've had my talk with Gurker. We had been dining at Frobisher's and the talk had become intimate between us. The question of my place in the reconstructed Ministry lay always just over the boundary of the discussion. Yes - yes. That's all settled. It needn't be talked about yet, but there's no reason to keep a secret from you... Yes - thanks! thanks! But let me tell you my story. "Then, on that night things were very much in the air. My position was a very delicate one. I was keenly anxious to get

It would seem he walked all the way from the House that night - he has frequently walked home during the past Session - and so it is I figure his dark form coming along the late and empty streets, wrapped up, intent. And then did the pale electric lights near the station cheat the rough planking into a semblance of white? Did that fatal unfastened door awaken some memory? Was there, after all, ever any green door in the wall at all? I do not know. I have told his story as he told it to me. There are times when I believe that Wallace was no more than the victim of the coincidence between a rare but not unprecedented type of hallucination and a careless trap, but that indeed is not my profoundest belief. You may think me superstitious, if you will, and foolish; but, indeed, I am more than

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Some Ideas of What Events are going on in Kent for July! Legends Of Pop - Benenden Hospital - 03//07/10 Some of the most popular hits from the Beatles, Queen, Michael Jackson and Elvis will be in the line-up for this year’s open air concert at Benenden Hospital on Saturday 3 July. Top tribute acts will entertain the audience with music from the greatest pop icons of our time, delivering hit after hit which are guaranteed to get everyone up and dancing.

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Tickets - £25 for adults and £15 for children under 11 Time - Gates open at 4.30pm More information - 01580 242545

6th International Festival Of Ceramics - The Friars (Aylesford) - 2 to 4/07/10 Aylesford Pottery was established by David Leach son of Bernard Leach the father of British studio pottery. For three days the private garden will be home to some of the best potters, sculptors & ceramic artists from the UK and abroad. You will have a wonderful opportunity to see and buy works from these top craftsmen. Demonstrations and hands on a Kids & Clay area where children can make pots, Free Parking and Refreshments contribute to what will be a thrilling day out.

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Tickets - Adults £4, concessions £3, accompanied children free Time - 10am to 5pm daily More information - www.ceramics-southeast.co.uk

Open Air Classical Concerts - Leeds Castle - 03/07/10 The concert will be staged in one of the world’s most spectacular settings – Leeds Castle. In the heart of the Garden of England, this beautiful Castle provides a dramatic backdrop to a spectacular and romantic summer's evening concert. The event gets underway with a rousing appearance of the marching Ghurkhas – Kent’s pride and joy. Then highly respected John Rigby conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Soloists for the evening include Tenor - Wynne Evans, Soprano - Elizabeth Watts and Baritone - Richard Morrison. The whole evening will be narrated by award winning actor Robert Powell. The evening comes to a dramatic climax with a spectacular fireworks finale and cannons.

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Dr John - Assembly Halls (T Wells) - 07/07/10 Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr John, established a unique sound from a blend of voodoo mysticism, funk, rhythm & blues, psychedelic rock and Creole roots. His many career highlights include the masterful album Sun, Moon and Herbs in 1971 which included cameos from Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger and 1973's In The Right Place, which contained the chart hits Right Place Wrong Time and Such A Night.

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Kent County Show - Kent Showground, Detling - July 16th, 17th & 18th LET THE SHOW BEGIN…..

The Kent County Agricultural Society, organisers of the Kent County Show are promoting its ‘children go free’ campaign for 2010. If you book tickets online or via the ticket hotline, adults can apply for additional complimentary child tickets for every adult ticket purchased. An adult ticket purchased ahead of the Kent County Show will be £15.00. •

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FIA World Touring Cars - Brands Hatch - 17 to 18/07/10 The FIA World Touring Car and Formula Two Championships return to the Kent circuit this July as Brands Hatch plays host to its first international event of the year.

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Whitstable Regatta - Tankerton - 31/07 to 01/08/10 This is to advise that Whitstable & Herne Bay Lions Club are organising the 217th anniversary of Whitstable Regatta. The first regatta was Tuesday 7th August 1792 between the seamen of Whitstable & Faversham making this possibly the oldest sea Regatta in the world. This year the Regatta will be on Saturday 31st July and Sunday 1st August 2010, on Tankerton Slopes, Tankerton, Whitstable, in Tankerton Bay for the Waterborne Regatta and in the sky’s above on Sunday afternoon. The finale on Saturday is a Fantastic Firework Display over Tankerton Bay.

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James Bondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Classic Aston Martin DB5 goes Under the Hammer! It is the first time that the DB5 sports car Sean Mr Lee, now a philanthropist aged in his 70s, Connery drove in the hit movie has ever come on used to drive it around in the 1970s but it has the open market. been held in storage by him ever since. The silver motor comes complete with the full complement of 'Q Branch' gadgets including machine guns, bullet-proof shield, revolving number plates, smoke screen and oil slick.

He is now selling it at auction in London, with the proceeds going to the Jerry lee Foundation.

The car, which has the number plate FMP 7B, is in perfect working condition and has about 30,000 These secret devices were deployed by 007 when miles on the clock. he was being pursued by Goldfinger's henchmen in the 1964 film. Peter Haynes, of RM Auctions, which is selling the Aston Martin, said: "After the car was used in All of the gadgets are still in full working order, Thunderball, Aston Martin sold it to Mr Lee who although the machine guns do not fire for safety has owned it ever since. reasons. "He paid $12,000 for it at the time. He had to It is the same car Bond arrived in at an English really persuade Aston Martin to sell it to him and golf club to play his famous round of golf with they did on condition they could use it for Goldfinger. promotional purposes when ever they wanted. And it is also the car he drove as he played a game of cat-and-mouse with the character Tilly Masterson's Mustang car in the Alps.

"In fact the car was last seen in public in the 1970s and has been locked away in a private Bond-themed room since then.

activate the bullet-proof shield at the back. "The machine guns obviously don't work - they never have done - but you can still press a button inside and it moves them into position. "The car is road legal and whoever buys it will be able to take it out on the open road or drive it to work if they wanted."

The auction takes place on October 27 and Mr Haynes said they are expecting huge interest in it The car, which also featured in 1965's "The car is up and running and all the gadgets still from around the world. Thunderball, was bought from Aston Martin in work too. You can use the smoke screen and oil 1969 by American radio DJ Jerry Lee for $12,000. slick discharge, the revolving number plates and He said: "This is the car Sean Connery drove in the film. It is the same car he arrived in to play his round of golf with Goldfinger and the one he drove up a mountain pass alongside actress Tania Mallett's Mustang car. "Under normal circumstances we would expect classic car collectors to be interested. "But because it is 007's car then it should appeal to wealthy people who like collecting cultural iconic items, like Jimi Hendrix's guitar or Marilyn Monroe's dress." The DB5 has recently undergone a re-commissioning program to return it to running condition ahead of the auction. Mr Lee, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, said: "The James Bond car has brought me much enjoyment for some 40 years. "Even as I sell it, the car will continue to give me great pleasure as it furthers the mission of the foundation to do good around the world."

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Citroen DS3 - Tasty Little Hatch! Citroen’s retro DS labeling has been resurrected for their new three door version of the C3 supermini sized range.

With the three-door eye catching DS3 styling as standard, DSign models are far from being a ba-

sic proposition – not the case with many competi- But the proud and individual ownership proposition doesn’t tors’ entry-level models in this class. The DSign trim features generous levels of stan-

The new C3 is already popular as a five door hatch and highly rated as a people carrier with the C3 Picasso, but to compete in the trendy and sporty three door sector along with the MINI, Alfa Romeo MiTo and perhaps the Fiat 500, Citroen needed a classy and hopefully desirable label. Drive forward the iconic Citroen DS label of long ago, add in the '3' for model range and there you have the DS3, a fun, smart and eye-catching three door supermini which is made even more attractive with Citroen’s renowned aggressive pricing policy.

DS3 customisation

dard equipment, which includes leather steering wheel, an MP3-compatible CD player with steer-

stop there: Citroen say each DS3 experience is unique, because each car is designed for the individual, by the individual. With a comprehensive choice of customizing options – un-

ing mounted controls, front fog lights, electric door usual for a new car by a mainstream manufacturer – each mirrors, cruise control with speed limiter, ESP sta- DS3 can be tailored to a driver’s own performance, style and bility programme, six airbags, electric windows, remote central locking and Gear Efficiency Indicator.

technology preferences. Delivering dynamic sporty looks or a more elegant chic appearance there are 38 body and roof colour combinations to

At the heart of the range, DStyle models gain the

choose from, whilst door mirrors, wheels and wheel centre

striking front bumper mounted LED lights, air-

caps are available in a vast range of colours and combina-

conditioning, dark tinted rear windows, contrasting tions. body and roof colours, roof coloured painted door mirrors with a chrome base, shiny-finished black

Citroen’s world with the DS3 starts at just £11,700 dashboard and 16-inch diamond-tipped alloy for the petrol VTi 95hp DSign, rising to £15,900

wheels.

for the top-of-the-range petrol THP 150hp and diesel HDi 110hp DSport models. In all there are five Euro V compliant engine choices - three BMW co-developed petrol units 1.4-litre 95bhp 1.6-litre 120 and 154bhp units and two modern Citroën HDi 1.6-litre diesels - with power outputs of 90 and 110bhp. An auto transmission option will soon follow. Equally as important as the purchase prices are the running costs, so DS3 customers can take advantage of a fixed price servicing offer. Costing £199 this covers all recommended and scheduled servicing, and brake fluid replacement for up to 3 years/35,000 miles. For good measure, depending on the engine emissions, road tax ranges from £0 to £155 and if it is a company supplied car then Benefit-in-Kind

The DStyle 99g/km version is based on the

tax ranges from 13 to 19 per cent. Insurance

DStyle trim but externally the only difference is

costs are also competitive ranging from 12E to

the use of 16-inch steel wheels with wheel covers

22E on the new 1-50 scale. Costs might be low

in place of the DStyle’s 16-inch alloys.

DS3 even offers a selection of ‘Spirits’, which include stylish

Combining classy touches with sporty styling,

roof graphics and matching carpet mats. My test car had a

DSport models feature chrome side rubbing

black roof covered with white spots and looked as if it had

but safety is high with a top five-star EuroNCAP rating.

strips, a rear spoiler with an integrated third brake been ‘spotted’ by large birds. Distinctive for sure.

DS3 specifications

light, a chrome double exhaust pipe, drilled alu-

Inside, drivers can select from several colour cloths and pre-

DS3 is available in three trim levels: DSign,

minium pedals and 17-inch black diamond-tipped

mium leathers, with the dashboard available in up to six fin-

DStyle and DSport. An environmentally-

alloys.

ishes including red, blue, white and even aluminium or car-

The ‘Connect Signature’ pack, which includes

bon fibre effects. The gearstick knob is also offered in sev-

Bluetooth, USB socket and the eight-speaker Hi-

eral different colours, which blend with satin-finished

Fi system is standard specification – as is auto-

chrome.

considerate DStyle 99g version - equipped with a new version of the HDi 90hp diesel engine is also available and, as its name suggests, this models emits just 99g/km of CO2.

matic digital air-conditioning.

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Using a special DS3 'configurator', the DS3 personalisation process starts with customers selecting their preferred engine and trim level.

so by the quality and design of the interior. This model has certainly moved into the same classy arena as the very top specification Mini Coopers but it will take

Without doubt the DS3 DSport 1.6 THP 150 is my nice surprise new-car package of the year so far, and I hope people are not put off by it being ‘just a Citroen’.

Depending on their initial choices, buyers are then presented time for Citroen to re-establish the DS as a desirable iconic with a choice of body colours, roof colours and roof graphics, label which the Mini under BMW’s ownership has. as well as a host of other features to select from – such as chrome door mirrors and chrome rubbing strips; alloy wheels in different sizes, styles and colours; front bumper LEDs; upholstery materials; and the colour schemes of the dashboard and gear knob.

Driving the DS3 I have to admit, I was not expecting the DS3 to be so smart or so well put together. In my life of testing new cars on a daily basis you get to know what to expect. The DS3 proved that theory to be wrong in this case.

There are also equipment ‘signature’ packs to choose from, which include executive car features such as automatic headlamps, rear parking sensors, MyWay satellite navigation, Connecting Box (Bluetooth with USB socket) and a front central armrest.

But not only did it look and feel good it drove beautifully and it is roomy in the front and not too bad in the rear. It does not have the go-kart precise handling performance of the Mini but it does have a far more compliant and comfortable ride given the potholed state of our roads. The car felt well balanced with plenty of predictable grip and it was very civilized to drive.

Citroen DS3 MILESTONES Citroen DS3 DSport 1.6i b16V THP 150

Price: £15,900 (+ affordable options) Engine/transmission: 1.6-litre, four cylinder, turbocharged petrol, 154bhp, 177lb ft (240Nm) of torque from 1,400rpm, 6-speed manual Performance: 133mph, 0-62mph 7.3 seconds, 42.2mpg (39mpg actual), CO2 155g/km, VED road tax £155, BIK tax 19% Insurance group: 22E Dimensions: L 3,948mm, W 1,715mm, H 1,483mm, boot/load area 285-980litres For: Lots of style and equipment for the money, very smart design and its well put together, drives really well and it’s nicely balanced with a comfortable ride Against: Perhaps does not yet have the premium badge for the image conscious owner, relatively high CO2 emissions

The engine we already know well. The 1.6-litre, four cylinder unit boosted by a turbocharger produces 154bhp, but more importantly 177lb ft (240Nm) of torque from just 1,400rpm so it is very responsive from low speeds requiring the minimum of use from the six-speed manual gearbox. As a reminder of the bespoke nature of DS3 ownership, a disc mounted in each key fob is finished in the same colour

I have to say that transmission has a gearchange operation which is silky smooth and precise and the gear ratios are

as either the car’s body or roof.

perfect for real life driving. Unfortunately without the tall

Design and quality

gearing it means that the official CO2 rating of 155g/km is relatively high.

Having missed the usual motoring media first test drive event due to a long-booked holiday, when the DS3 test car

But the fuel economy during my test drive week was an ac-

in DSport specification with the 1.6-litre THP 150 petrol en-

ceptable 39mpg, not far short of the official 42.2mpg figure.

gine arrived on my driveway I was surprised. Not just be-

Top speed is an impressive 133mph and the zero to 62mph

cause of its very smart and distinctive styling but even more

dash takes just 7.3 seconds.

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