Word: huddersfield
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...clothes each week, which are typically sold at the shops that receive the donations. That's why the designer boutiques are expected to work best in posh areas. "Like attracts like," Farquhar explains. Clothes deemed unsuitable for sale at individual shops end up at Oxfam's "wastesaver" operation in Huddersfield, north England. From there, some are sold via Oxfam's online shop, while others are sold in bulk to dealers in developing countries. Clothes that are completely unwearable are shredded and sold for use as mattress stuffing or automotive soundproofing...
...onetime computer consultant, Harry quit work in 1977 to concentrate on making prodigies of the girl and her younger sister Rebecca. Neither child has ever been to school. All their primary and secondary learning has come from Harry and Sylvia, at desks set up in the family kitchen in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Partly as a result of this cozy tutorial, Ruth passed her high school-level exams at nine. Two years later, she won a scholarship at St. Hugh's College, scoring first in a field of 530 candidates on the university's entrance examination. Harry moved her into...
...little public admiration with his protective and often garrulous ways, dropping a parental curtain between Ruth and the journalists trailing the celebrity scholar. "Her father . . . never closes his mouth," wrote a frustrated London Daily Express reporter, and "clings to his priceless pearl like a limpet." Meanwhile, in Huddersfield, Sylvia manages a job as a computer consultant and programmer while teaching Rebecca, who finished high school last month at eleven...