Postboxes go gold in honour of riders
The Royal Mail is out painting another postbox this morning after it painted the wrong one gold in honour of Hampshire Olympian Peter Charles.
A postbox in Alton was painted yesterday after Peter won team gold on Monday, along with Scott Brash, Nick Skelton and Ben Maher.
But 52-year-old Peter actually lives in Bentworth, about four miles away.
Royal Mail said they would now paint the postbox in Bentworth gold as well.
Boxes have also been painted gold in Peebles (Scott), Elsenham (Ben) and in Alcester (Nick).
Sark’s only postbox will go gold in honour of Carl Hester and ones in Apney St Peter and Enfield for Laura and Charlotte.
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.