AN England rugby shirt signed by the victorious World Cup winning team went under the hammer at a charity auction in Tavistock on Sunday.
The shirt eventually sold for £1,700 at the event, which was held to raise money for Mount House School's first team rugby tour to Australia next summer. It was bought by a Yelverton resident.
Auctioneer David Kivell, who obtained the shirt for the sale, said the auction went 'very well', raising £9,000 for the school.
Among the 40 lots, in addition to the rugby shirt, were ten tickets for a hospitality day at a Plymouth Albion match, donated by Albion's director of rugby, former Tavistock College student Graham Dawe. The tickets sold for £1,000.
And broadcaster and businessman Noel Edmonds, who lives at Jacobstowe, obviously intends to keep a keen eye on the news in West Devon during the coming year — he paid around £300 for a year's subscription to the Okehampton Times!