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A 96-year-old former RAF corporal who left school when he was 14 has become the oldest contestant in Countdown history.

That same year, he pleaded guilty to corporal injury upon a spouse and was sentenced to three years of probation with 234 days in jail.

In later years, Buhari attributed his disciplinarian bent to spending his formative years at boarding school, where corporal punishment was the norm, and in the military.

Mr Lemon served in the army throughout World War Two, having joined in 1939 and left as a corporal in 1946.

Some call for a return to the days of corporal punishment in schools, when unruly children were disciplined by "the tawse".