The judges were Nicholas Owen, Peter James, Virginia McKenna, Lauren St John and Judy Moir.
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Here is Mr Rose s story about his childhood in Little Bredy. Ninety-three years ago, on the twelfth of March this year I was born (2-3-28) in a pleasant hamlet called Little Bredy in Dorset, where my father was the estate carpenter for Sir Robert Williams of ‘Bridehead House’. As the last of a large family of brothers and sisters, the happiness of the early years has never left me, and I am sure they never will.
NHS workers James and Alison Young planned a big wedding until COVID-19 struck. Alison who works as an oncology nurse at Bournemouth Hospital, where James also works as a pharmacist, had to abandon plans for their hen and stag nights, the grand wedding with live entertainment - and the honeymoon, as life became particularly chaotic. Alison had planned a spa day at Chewton Glen, but this was abandoned and she had a handful of friends over for afternoon tea in the garden, made by her mum. For the stag do, James had planned to take fourteen friends to The Crystal Maze experience in London for an overnight stay. Instead, he had two friends over for party games in the garden, which his wonderful mother- and father-in-law organised.