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Theme: CHERRIES (life's a bowl of cherries).

Group 1: entries under cherry C: 5, 16, 30 and 32.

Group 2: types of cherry listed else- where: 9, 41, 4 and 36.

First prize: Mrs E. Shields, Stroud. Runners-up: Stephen Crabtree, Chislehurst; John Bellis, Manchester.