Thousands of spectators are expected next weekend for the 60th anniversary of a historic boat race between Oxford and Cambridge universities.
The race, on February 28, 1944, at the height of the Second World War, was the only one ever held away from the River Thames.
Oxford won, by three quarters of a length, over a mile and a half course on the River Ouse outside Ely in Cambridgeshire.
Now the race is to be re-run over the same course with veteran crews of former rowing blues from both universities.
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