Meet Worzel Gummidge BA

EARNING £250 a week for sitting about, reading and occasionally ringing a bell to scare birds away has made Jamie Fox the envy of his fellow graduates.

The 22-year-old is enjoying his newfound role as a real- life Worzel Gummidge, after being employed as a human scarecrow in a Norfolk field.

Fox, who has a degree in music and English, is working for farmer William Youngs by keeping the partridges off his ten-acre field of oilseed rape in Aylsham, where conventional methods are failing to keep the birds at bay.

As well as wearing a bright orange coat, Fox also uses an accordion and a cow bell to frighten the pests during each eight-hour shift.

He says: ‘A couple of my friends are envious. It’s nice to be out in the fresh air, but it gets very cold when the wind whips across the field.’