"Barbara Cartland came to Brooklands because she was a gossip columnist," explains Roger Ramage, who combines his full-time job as business editor on the local paper with a day a week doing publicity ...

In 1931, Harold Pemberton, motoring correspondent of the Daily Express, filed the following report: "Do women drive motor-cars with as much skill as men? I was invited to Brooklands yesterday to see ...

Ninety years ago, in 1923 — the same year in which the shy and stammering Duke of York walked down the aisle of Westminster Abbey with Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon — a 22-year-old gossip columnist called ...