Woman's lockdown hobby turns her into marmalade world champion

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A woman from South Gloucestershire has become a world champion after taking up marmalade making during lockdown.

Josephine Coombe entered The World Marmalade awards in Cumbria in the first-timer category, winning gold for her produce.

She also picked up several silver and bronze awards for various other marmalades she submitted to the competition.

Josephine moved to Littleton-upon Severn from Canada before the first lockdown last year.

"I was living in this tiny little English cottage in the middle of nowhere in Gloucestershire," she explained.

"I didn't have much to do in lockdown during the evenings and weekends, so I decided to start playing around with preserves."

She started her own business fuelled by positive reviews from her brother-in-law, a big fan of marmalade and her hardest critic.

She has also since gone beyond making traditional orange preserves and produces a variety of flavours, including orange and lemon with rosewater and prosecco. 

When asked what she loves most about making marmalade, she said: "The way it looks when it is done and the way it tastes when it's done.

"There's nothing more beautiful than a jar of marmalade in the light when the peel is perfectly distributed through the jar as it will be if pour it into the jar at the right time and not too early."