An Oxford couple stumbled across an Oxford Mail newspaper from 1928 - the year that it was founded.

Mairi and Norman Summersby, who live in Rose Hill, do not know how they came into possession of the paper but they were surprised when they saw how old the edition was.

It was printed on December 12, 1928 and was a broadsheet at the time priced at just one penny.

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Mrs Summersby, who is 66, said: “My husband was going through his things and having a good tidy up when he found it in one of the boxes that he hadn’t touched. He can’t remember how he came to have it.

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“Could it have been from his mum or dad? We’ve been trying to think whether it could have been from this person or that person. It’s a bit of a mystery really.”

Mr Summersby, 86, who grew up in Thame, married his wife in 2000.

Both, having been in previous relationships, have grandchildren and Mr Summersby has one great-grandson.

The couple are avid readers of the Oxford Mail and say they read the paper everyday.

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They are one of three households in Oxfordshire who have a copy of the paper from 1928 from the same date.

Peter Stevens, 80, from Chadlington, near Chipping Norton has a copy as well as Barbara Tuffley, 94, from Wolvercote,who said it must have been given to her mother for Christmas.

Mr Stevens found his copy while he was cleaning out his cellar to make a games room for his grandchildren.

The paper has just 12 pages and the front page story is about an inquest into the death of a sergeant who was killed in a plane crash, headlined ‘Airman’s terrible fate in Bicester crash’.

The photo in black and white on the front page is of a ‘fat stock show’ and Mrs Summersby said she remembered attending similar events with her mother.

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Also on the front page are the latest bulletins issued from Buckingham Palace about the condition of King George V who was a heavy smoker and had infected fluid in his lungs which later spread to his bloodstream.

Mr Summersby worked at a factory in Oxford before leaving to work at Speedwell House and at Oxford University where he met his wife.

Mrs Summersby has been a cleaner all her working life.