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Page last updated at 15:21 GMT, Saturday, 19 July 2008 16:21 UK

91-year-old receives PhD

A 91-year-old former soldier Michael Cobb has become one of the oldest people to receive a doctorate from Cambridge University.

The World War II veteran earned his PhD by creating an atlas of railway stations built in Britain between 1807 and 1994.

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