EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Zara Tindall among the many spectators at Cheltenham

Zara Tindall was among the many spectators toasting the success of the November Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse, the place she’s a committee member.

But there was a bitter after-taste for a type of buying and selling on the three-day assembly in Gloucestershire.

I hear that Delanns Jewels, which had a store on the Jockey Club occasion, was focused by six armed raiders as employees made their approach again to their Cotswolds base. More than £1million of equestrian-themed jewels have been stolen within the ‘terrifying’ incident.

‘We’d simply completed a day of buying and selling and we have been unloading the van with the inventory on the finish of the day,’ a member of employees tells me. ‘They should have been watching us they usually took their likelihood.

‘They took about £1million price of inventory. We are lined on insurance coverage, however I can hardly bear to speak about it as a result of I’m nonetheless shaken. The complete factor was very scary.’

A supply claims the robbers have been carrying weapons. ‘The poor enterprise homeowners have been held at gunpoint,’ the supply says. ‘They had no selection however at hand over every part.’

Delanns Jewels trades from a store in Burford, a picturesque Oxfordshire close to the properties of well-known figures akin to Jeremy Clarkson and Kate Moss.

Thames Valley Police confirms the incident. ‘We are interesting for witnesses following a theft in Burford,’ a spokesman says. ‘At round 6pm on Sunday quite a lot of males have approached a automotive that has been parked on High Street. The males eliminated quite a lot of objects of jewelry from the rear of the car. The males then made off in one other car.

‘We are interesting for anybody who witnessed this incident who has not already been spoken to please come ahead.’

Don’t cry for me Argentina… Sir Tim Rice, who helped flip the story of the nation’s former first woman, Eva Peron, into hit musical Evita, is misplaced for phrases in the case of its wild-haired new president, Javier Milei.

‘He’s intriguing,’ Sir Tim says of the Benny Hill lookalike. ‘He looks like a free cannon.’

Speaking at The Oldie of the Year Awards on the National Liberal Club in London, the Oscar-winning lyricist tells me: ‘He appears a little bit of a weirdo, however cannot be worse than the previous lot they’ve had. He’s making noises in regards to the Falklands which is annoying.’

Selfless daddy-daughter evening out for Jagger duo

Sir Mick Jagger‘s youngest little one, Deveraux, turns seven subsequent month, however the Rolling Stones star hasn’t forgotten the older members of his clan.

This week, the 80-year-old singer loved an evening out with Jade Jagger, 52, his daughter with ex-wife Bianca, 78.

The pair attended a screening of the movie I’m Still Here on the Thirteen cocktail bar in London’s Soho. The documentary explores the charity Under One Sky’s bid to achieve a whole bunch of people that have been left ‘locked out’ on the streets in the course of the Covid pandemic.

Jade, together with Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern, volunteered with the charity on the time. She is Sir Mick’s second oldest little one, after Karis Jagger, 53, whose mom is the American actress and singer Marsha Hunt, 77.

‘How insulting BBC TV News was in its therapy of Top Gear,’ former presenter Chris Goffey complains of the report detailing the company’s resolution to pitstop the present following Freddie Flintoff’s horror crash.

‘The preliminary present was labelled [as having] ‘cardigan-wearing presenters’ when the reality is it was an entertaining and factually correct present introduced by good, clever individuals,’ says Goffey, father of Supergrass drummer Danny. Goffey Snr earned his place in Top Gear’s pantheon of prangs when he overturned an Austin Maestro.

Loved-up Lily is all coronary heart at charity store

Lily James hasn’t mentioned a phrase about her private life since she rekindled her relationship with rock star Michael Shuman, however she’s eager to make a vogue assertion about love.

The Downton Abbey star was one of many well-known volunteers who bought behind the tills on the Choose Love pop-up store in Carnaby Street, London. It raises cash to assist individuals in refugee camps.

Lily wore a black T-shirt emblazoned with the charity’s emblem, which she tucked right into a satin skirt.

The actress, 34, break up up with Queens of the Stone Age bassist Shuman, 38, earlier this yr. However, they reunited over the summer time and have been lately noticed leaving the Harold Pinter Theatre, the place Lily is at present starring within the West End play Lyonesse.

Being requested to compose the theme tune for a James Bond movie is a good honour, however the requirement to incorporate its title within the lyrics could be difficult.

Just ask John Taylor, the bass guitarist for Duran Duran, who carried out the theme to the 1985 film A View To A Kill, which starred Sir Roger Moore as 007.

Taylor says: ‘To today we’re without end grateful that we did not get Quantum Of Solace.’

Is it Four Funerals and a ding-dong? 

Richard Curtis has revealed he is contemplating writing a brand new movie, Four Funerals And A Wedding, as a result of so a lot of his buddies have died.

Curtis, 67, who’s married to broadcaster Emma Freud, wrote the screenplay for the 1994 hit Four Weddings And A Funeral.

He says: ‘Emma is making an attempt to encourage me to write down Four Funerals And A Wedding as a result of we do go to numerous funerals. And we’re simply arguing in regards to the marriage ceremony as a result of I feel it must be a stunning one with younger individuals.

‘She thinks it must be a death-bed marriage ceremony – a type of ones the place, simply because the man’s about to conk out, he says, ‘Marry me’, then dies as he is shoving the ring on the finger.’

Craig’s creature comforts 

Strictly choose Craig Revel Horwood has received his battle to increase his £1.8 million nation dwelling – regardless of fears for bats and newts.

The choreographer, 58, desires an even bigger entrance corridor, fitness center and master suite, in addition to a butler’s kitchen, wine retailer and cushty.

But his seven-bedroom home close to Peterborough lies in an Amber Impact Risk Zone for excellent crested newts – a protected species. Bats, that are additionally protected, have been noticed flying round, too.

Revel Horwood utilized to North Northamptonshire Council for planning permission. His dwelling lies in a conservation space, with a Grade II-listed gate as a part of the boundary wall. Ecologists objected, citing an ‘inadequate’ bat survey, however council officers gave it the go-ahead after neighbours did not object.