News about Craig Fuller

As rural dramas go, the cast is reassuringly uppercrust: a former Duchess, a Duke who goes by the nickname of 'Bunter' and a posse of rich landowners ostracised by furious locals. Given the setting is the genteel area of North Wiltshire that was close to the inspiration for Jilly Cooper's fictional Rutshire Chronicles, a series about to hit our screens in the television adaption of her raucous novel Rivals, one might expect the cause of the discord to have a whiff of debauchery about it. But while sex is not the issue that has thrown a hand grenade into this particular country set, the matter is no less combustible. Solar panels - specifically, a plan to install a vast complex covering more than 2,000 acres of this picturesque slice of the Cotswolds - have sparked an almighty to-do and the locals are up in arms.