A small hamlet in the Cotswolds is in lockdown as America’s vice-president arrives with his family for a short holiday. Good luck with that, says long-time resident Julian Linley, who pulls back the curtain on what life is really like beyond the Disney-esque fantasy...

US Secret Service installs helicopter pad and checkpoints at vice-president’s Cotswolds holiday home

Police have closed off all roads and paths leading to the hamlet of Dean, where the US Vice President is staying with his family at Dean Manor, an 18th-century country house.