They were cheered on while scrambling up Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street in Shaftesbury in Dorset - immortalised by the ad directed by future movie director and knight Sir Ridley Scott.
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I was abused physically by my wife. In the 1980s, we had a six-year relationship but I left her for the third time because of it. I still think I had to leave my wife and do right by the boys.
His best known novel, Tess Of The D Urbervilles describes the unjust punishment meted out to a young milkmaid driven to murder by her brutal treatment at the hands of a playboy aristocrat.