Scholarship boost for clock restoration

A FORMER teacher has won a £6750 Queen Elizabeth Scholarship to enable him to take a unique antique clock restoration course. Brian Coles, aged 53, pictured right, taught geography and geology for 22 years, latterly at a large South Wales comprehensive school, where he was also head of year.

He gave up teaching four years ago to retrain in horology, which had been an amateur enthusiasm for …

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