The Apprentice

It would appear from well-stacked supermarket and off-licence shelves that there are plenty of people in the world who know how to make wine. It is therefore no loss that 25-year-old Teo Barab has decided not to put his degree in winemaking to use and has instead upped sticks from his native Italy to the UK where he is learning a far more useful skill – one that is in high demand.

Barab is offering up a small sheet of aluminium that he has been shaping using an English wheel, to a buck representing the front end of a Ferrari Dino.

I’m sure many of you will have visited the Brooklands Museum in Weybridge. We live only about 20 minutes away and I grew up in nearby Woking, so I’ve visited the place dozens of times in order to satisfy my love of cars, bikes and aeroplanes. What I’ve never seen before is a workshop hidden away next to one of the large hangars that is home to the Heritage Skills Academy. You’ve probably also been to the Bicester Motion site, perhaps for one of its Scrambles, and seen in a workshop on the main drag young people fettling classics. This is Bicester’s branch of the same Heritage Skills Academy (to save ink we’ll refer to it as the HSA).