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Team 'Cold Beef' win it

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Congratulations to the Cold Beef team in this year's Polar Challenge race to the Magnetic North Pole.

The team, which included Northumberland farmer Jamie Wood, has won the event.

Jamie spent a year preparing for the 350 mile race and crossed the finish line first beating off against competitors from all over the world including Taiwan, France, China and New Zealand.

The 'Cold Beef' team dodged polar bears, lemmings and musk ox, battled with temperatures that dipped to minus 40 degrees centigrade and skied for up to 18 hours a day before pitching their tents on the ice.

"It hasn't really sunk in that we have won yet," says Jamie, 28. "We arrived at the finish line in good time and it was great to be welcomed by everyone there."

The photograph (l to r) shows Paul Moxham, Jamie Wood and Angus King.

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