Two Oxford University students, Veronica Buckle and Amanda Semper, attempt to raise money for muscular dystrophy research through a rowing challenge. – Vintage Photograph

Two Oxford University students, Veronica Buckle of Davenhouse Close, Eynsham, and Amanda Semper of Iffley Road, Oxford, joined forces to raise money for muscular dystrophy research through a rowing challenge. The rowers, from Lady Margaret Hall and Wolfson College, set out to row 20 miles down the Thames but had to turn back near Abingdon Lock due to the speed of the water. Despite not completing their intended challenge, the team hopes to have raised more than 1,000 through sponsorship. Amanda Semper is a zoology student at the University and has a back injury, while Veronica Buckle is a researcher at the Wolfson College genetics laboratory and was unable to take part in the event.Two Oxford University students, Veronica Buckle of Davenhouse Close, Eynsham, and Amanda Semper of Iffley Road, Oxford, joined forces to raise money for muscular dystrophy research through a rowing challenge. The rowers, from Lady Margaret Hall and Wolfson College, set out to row 20 miles down the Thames but had to turn back near Abingdon Lock due to the speed of the water. Despite not completing their intended challenge, the team hopes to have raised more than 1,000 through sponsorship. Amanda Semper is a zoology student at the University and has a back injury, while Veronica Buckle is a researcher at the Wolfson College genetics laboratory and was unable to take part in the event.

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$861 NOC Veronica Buckle, of Davenhouse Close, Eynsham, left, and Amanda Semper, of Iffley Road, Oxford, with a Wolfson College crew. Oxford students put their backs into a difficult row on the river to aid muscular dystrophy research. The speed of water on the Thames meant they could not complete their intended 20-mile haul to Abingdon – having to turn and back back near Abingdon lock. But four eights and a four from Lady Margaret Hall and Wolfson College hope to have raised more than 1,000 in sponsorship to give to the Muscular Dys- trophy Group. Amanda Semper, of Lady Margaret Hall and the Uni- zoology versity’s department, and Veronica Buckle, of Wolfson College the and genetics laboratory, are in- volved in research into the disease. They had to sit out on the rowing this time. Amanda has a back injury and Veronica has been in- volved in writing her thesis 662