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Green Fingered Orangeman

Mark Devenport | 16:45 UK time, Monday, 1 March 2010

Others may have decided the chances of a punning journalist making fun were too high to press ahead, but not the UUP MLA for Upper Bann. Sam Gardiner wants more children to become gardeners. He admits that "with a name like mine, it was inevitable I would be interested in gardening". Mr Gardiner sits on the board of governors of two primary schools where the children grow beans, peas, lettuce and have apple trees. He wants the local media to sponsor a competition to encourage more children to grow their own.

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