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BBC News
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
'My wife still has Kember's unwashed sock'
This week, we are asking you to share your stories and photos about why you fell in love with Crystal is a selection of your submissions: Norman: My first season was in 1968-69 when they were promoted to the First Division for the first time. We were in front of the directors' box for the last match when they threw their shirts into the crowd and celebrated promotion. My wife still has Steve Kember's sock that he threw to her (unwashed). Send us your pictures and stories here
BBC News
09-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Pick-your-own strawberry farm says don't try before you buy
A Kent strawberry farm is reminding its pick-your-own customers to not eat the fruit before paying for Kember, the co-owner of Lower Ladysden Farm near Goudhurst, estimates that if each customer ate "four or five strawberries" whilst picking, it would amount to nearly £50,000 lost income over the course of the comes despite British strawberry growers reporting a bumper harvest due to ideal growing conditions."Last month we had plenty of sunshine, daytime temperatures over 20C and mild nights which are key to this early season crop - it's producing the large, sweet berries we are harvesting now," said Mr Kember. Last year the UK had a colder and wetter start to the fruit growing season with crop yields suffering as a the recent good growing conditions are a boost to the industry with one supermarket purchasing extra strawberry stock this year as a expects to sell a quarter more strawberries in 2025 and has cut the price shoppers pay for 400g punnets from £2.50 to £1.50. Yet smaller growers like Ladysden Farm, who only sell pick-your-own fruit, have issued a stark warning to those who do not pay for what they pick."The amount of money we lose each season for fruit that isn't paid for is huge," said Rosie Stockbridge, who works in the cafe and farm shop."If people feel they can eat nearly a punnet whilst going around it could mean the end of pick-your-own."
