The presence of television crews enlivened Puckering this week when Segovia Television's new breakfast show, 'The Morning Rise,' broadcast a segment from Stoney Grove. Segovia was highlighting the fact that it will begin filming 'Taxi to Kensington' on that estate later in the year. Although the author's identity remains unknown, the book was set at a great house and village in this area. After some preliminary plans to film the village sequences elsewhere, the production team has agreed to set the story in Upper Puckering.

Mr. Simon Titsley made a brief appearance on the show. Unfortunately, because of a breaking story in Zimbabwe, his comments were restricted to "we're jolly excited." Producer Arthur Daily and Director Amy Standish spent the morning at the site looking at possible location shots. In talking to the Gazette they both mentioned their concern over the colour of the grass ("not the right historical shade of green at all") as well as the scarcity of cows on the estate.

The two also expressed an interest in recruiting Puckering's finest to act as extras. Daily said that before the filming starts they would be holding a casting call and looking for local talent. "The story is set during the war when the landscape was being farmed, so we'll be looking for some real gnarly types, toothless old men, that sort of thing. Of course the odd buxom milk maid might get a look in too."

Whilst the major roles in the film are believed to have been cast, there is no word yet as to who will be playing the parts of Arthur Kinglsey and Loretta Princeton, the two lovers at the heart of the story.