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Still going strong

THE oldest British Boxing Board of Control licence-holder is still going strong. Bob Kipps is 83 years old and always in the gym, training boxers, taking them on the pads and working out himself.

Retiring, he says, “Never entered my head. I’m fit enough. It’s my life. It’s not just work it’s a way of life, to me anyway.”

“It’s my life, isn’t it? That’s the way it is. I started boxing when I was 13, right through the Army I boxed and then when

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