Sporting relationship

"I play golf and I like to fish," he says. "And when you do these things you like to buy the antiques associated with them."

And it was on the Portobello Road, while Truett was scouring the market for his collection, that the two men met. "He was selling and I was buying," in what, Truett explains, was then still something of an esoteric field.

Their relationship was cemented at the first hickory-shafted golf match, held in 1992.

FT Magazine (Jane Whiting)

Peaceful potatoes

Protesters, armed with bags of organic potatoes, moved in to disrupt a government GM-crop trial last week. More than 200 people arrived on the 40-acre site in Hedon, east Yorkshire, and began planting [but] they were in the wrong field. "I told the police officers that it was a bean field," said farmer David Buckton, who has nothing to do with genetically modified potatoes. "But they said the protest seemed peaceful so we'd better let them get on with it."

Sunday Times (Sigrid Rabiger)

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