Man delight at new biggest onion record

A man has beaten his own world record to grow the largest onion for a second year running.

Peter Glazebrook, 78, set a new record for the world’s heaviest onion for the second consecutive year at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show.

The vegetable tipped the scales at 18lbs 1oz at the weigh-in, beating his previous world record of 17lbs 15 and a half ounces, which Mr Glazebrook, a retired chartered surveyor, from Halam, near Newark, set at last year’s competition.

The previous world record had been held for five years by John Sifford, from the West Midlands.