BUCKLAND-in-the-Moor's church organist is retiring after 65 years.

Maureen Daymond was 23 when she started playing the harmonium at St Peter's Church, the church noted for its unusual clockface with the words 'My dear mother' round the clockface, instead of numerals.

At 87 she thinks it is time she had a rest.

Her final church service as organist will be on Easter Sunday.

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