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The News of the World felt the material was too hot to print but Private Eye had no such scruples. She’d have to put him in her novel, then she could dream about him. But only because they made it possible. Our names go on every press release.

For an indoor arena with limited space it was enormous, ending up with an upright of 5 ft 8 ins. Imprisoned in Wembley, with its heat, airlessness and tensions, she’d forgotten an outside world existed. “Beautiful city,” said Helen softly. ”Listening to the anxious whinnying from the boxes, she breathed in the heady smell of sweating horse, dung and damp earth.