1.   A vast number of people dream of rescuing and restoring a historic building, and a remarkable percentage actually do it.

2.   Artefacts, works of art and historic buildings need to be considered in their historical and geographical context.

3.   Artists and poets have never tired of its historic buildings and artisan shops, richly wooded hills and lovely views.

4.   Historic buildings can have a new lease of life through conversion.

5.   Its only scourge - heavy lorries - rumbling through its streets, polluting the environment and damaging historic buildings.

6.   One of these was for the creation of a new statutory historic buildings committee.