Telegraph – Did Crispin Odey count his chickens before they were hatched when he won planning permission to spend a six-figure sum on a temple to house 20 prize fowl at his Gloucestershire mansion?
In a long-overdue update on “Cluckingham Palace”, as the hedge fund manager’s Classical Revivalist stone chicken coop is unofficially called, Diary can reveal that the folly is now finished and looking rather splendid in the grounds of the Odey Asset Management founder’s Eastbach Court manor in the Forest of Dean.