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Oxford allotment holder wins top city honour
Reg Curnock knows a lot about allotments after growing vegetables for four decades. Now the grandfather-of-14 has been picked as Oxford’s top allotment holder. The 75-year-old started growing veg for his own children and now delivers fresh produce to his grandchildren across the city. He owns a plot at Kestrel Crescent Allotments in Blackbird Leys and this month won the Challenge Trophy, the overall award in the allotment ‘Oscars’. The former Pressed Steel worker, from Brambling Way, Blackbird Leys, said: [...]
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Pensioner’s camera hobby raises over £100,000 for Oxfam
By restoring old donated cameras for Oxfam, Milo Shott has raised more than £100,000 for the charity. He began 11 years ago when he walked into the Summertown store in Oxford andsaw two shop workers about to dispose of an old piece of equipment. Mr Shott, whose interest in photography began as a child, saved what turnedout to be an extremely rare telephoto lens. After he cleaned it, the shop was able to sell the camera for £270. “That set [...]
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Brainy Harry Potter star Emma Watson swaps Hogwarts for Oxford
She plays a brainbox in Harry Potter and now Emma Watson has proved life truly does imitate art, as the clever actress kicks off a term studying at iconic Oxford University. The 21-year-old, who stars as Hermione Granger in the wizard movies, is studying English at the university’s Worcester College, after leaving Brown University in America earlier this year. Emma had admitted that juggling her acting with modelling, promotional work and studying had become “a little impossible”. But it looks [...]
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