Prize-winning gardeners Len and Tommy Hodges have won another trophy.

Len, 77, and Tommy, 47, have been competing in local horticultural shows as a pair since 1982.

Their latest coup was to share the cup for the highest number of points in the open classes at Hethe Horticultural Society's annual show in Hethe Village Hall, near Bicester.

Len and Tommy, of School Hill, Charndon, near Bicester, won the trophy jointly with Roy Archer, of Towcester.

Len said: "We enjoy gardening and have nearly an acre of land.

"We specialise in vegetables and over the years we have won quite a few trophies.

"We have won a cup for most overall points in the vegetable classes at Thame show for the past six years running."

Len used to drive lorries for the London Brick Company, at nearby Calvert, and Tommy is a driver at Bicester Defence Storage and Distribution Centre, formerly known as Bicester Ordnance Depot.

Len said: "The secret of our success is to use compost - lawn cuttings and other waste from the garden. We go in for home composting rather than using fertilisers."

Rona Sharpe won the cup for gaining the most points in the village classes.

Show secretary Pauline O'Gorman said: "It was a very successful show. We had more children's entries than ever before."

Her husband, Tony, and Gilbert Batts, of Hethe, displayed their collections of old barn engines used on farms in the past to pump water, drive saws and do other jobs.