Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is expected to leave his job later this year after growing tired of the "idealism" of Barack Obama's inner circle, the Daily Telegraph of London reported.

Susan Kent, the mother of one of Miss Withers’s friends, wrote to the letters page of The Daily Telegraph, describing her as a “delightful” house guest.

Set at the end of the long garden behind the house, the garden Gallery is clad in vertical planks of wood cut from recycled telegraph poles, lending it a shed-like appearance.