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Les Jones obituary

My friend and mentor Les Jones, who has died aged 90, was an economics teacher at schools in Oxfordshire and Shropshire, but also had a side existence as an organic farmer during the 1980s and 90s.In 1982 Les bought a 25-acre smallholding,…

Jane Jones obituary

My mother, Jane Jones, who has died aged 89, was a primary school teacher with a passion for Shakespeare. She always said there were two men in her life: her husband, John, and William Shakespeare himself. She kept a well-thumbed copy of…