Roger Haynes has been award an honorary teaching degree from the University of Chester.

When Mr Haynes, who is 76 years old and lives in Port Erin, qualified in 1964, teachers weren’t awarded degrees. They received a certificate.

As the university’s vice-chancellor and principal Professor Tim Wheeler is coming up to retire, he decided to offer all teacher graduates of the university the chance to ’graduate again’ with an honorary degree.

Mr Haynes was a pupil at Arbory Primary School and Castle Rushen High School.

He taught for three years in Bootle in Liverpool before returning to the island to teach at Victoria Road in Castletown and then spent 30 years at Rushen Primary School, 15 as its deputy head teacher.

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