Martin Clunes adjusts to new pace (BELFAST TELEGRAPH)

"If anyone had told me 10 years ago that I would have my own farm, and be driving a cart pulled by two Clydesdales, I would have laughed in their face.

"I just didn't see it coming," the actor said of life on the farm.

He added: "I found this new speed quite shocking to begin with, very slow. But I've turned 51 recently and I have a six-month ban on my driving licence, and this speed could be my future, staring at my horses' bums as they plod me around the countryside."

Martin, who has been filming a two-part documentary about working horses for ITV, added: "It's quite a nice way to go."

:: Martin Clunes: Heavy Horse Power is on ITV on Thursday, February 7.



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Actor Martin Clunes praises west Dorset charity for help with young offenders 10:30am Wednesday 2nd January 2013 in News By Rene Gerryts (BRIDPORT NEWS)

ACTOR Martin Clunes has sung the praises of a west Dorset horse charity for its success in helping young offenders to turn their lives around.

The Beaminster-based funnyman is the patron of the Horse Course charity set up by Harriet Laurie of Askerswell.

She has been helping the inmates at Portland Young Offender Institution (YOI) learn skills to break the cycle of offending and incarceration through horsemanship.

It’s been so successful at the YOI she’s now trained three other natural horsemanship specialists to do the same in three other prisons.

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