Rowing fans were today celebrating another Oxford victory in the boat race.
The city’s team stormed to victory by three-and-a-half lengths in the 155th Oxford v Cambridge event.
Oxford Blue pub landlord Rob Oakley, who has been providing the Oxford rowers with their Sunday lunch after training for the past six months, was among those cheering on the team.
He said his pub in Marston Street, East Oxford, was full to the brim with rowing fans.
Mr Oakley said: “There were 120 plus people. It was superb, it was a great atmosphere.”
Author Janie Hampton was also celebrating after she placed a £1,000 bet on an Oxford victory.
She won a free bet with William Hill after her book, The Austerity Olympics, about the 1948 London games, won a prize in the bookmaker’s literary contest.
Ms Hampton said she planned to donate her £1,400 winnings to the Chauncy Maple Trust, an organisation that hopes to renovate a medical ship anchored in Malawi, East Africa.
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