Reader wins gin hamper worth £125

READER Iain Phillips, from Watlington, won the £125 gin hamper provided by the Henley Distillery in the Henley Standard competition published on December 1.

He correctly answered that you should take your Christmas decorations down by January 5 (12 days) and his name was drawn at random.

Mr Phillips, 71, walks to his local corner shop every week to buy his local paper along with the Sunday Times and Financial Times.

He said: “I saw the competition in the paper and I knew the answer, so I thought ‘well, why not for the cost of a stamp?’

“Gin isn’t my favourite spirit funnily enough but I do like my alcohol.”

Mr Phillips, who has lived in Watlington for four years, shared his prize with a friend with whom he spent Christmas Day in St Agnes, Cornwall.