Yorkshire gooseberry competition returns with 85-year-old taking top prize

Bryan Nellist’s white gooseberry won the growers’ prize by a fraction of a gram at the tense Egton Bridge competition

An 85-year-old awarded the trophy for heaviest gooseberry has expressed his pride, saying he thought his “winning days had come to an end”.

Bryan Nellist’s victory, in the Yorkshire hamlet of Egton Bridge near Whitby on Tuesday, went to the wire, decided by a “berry-off” that came down to fractions of a gram between his white gooseberry – of a variety known as Belmarsh – and its rival.

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