The 2024 competition featured 17 categories, including entries from a Taiwanese orphanage in the children's section and a US women's correctional facility in the newly introduced prison's class
A screenshot taken from an AFP TV video, shows people browsing jars of marmalade entered into the annual Dalemain world marmalade awards, in Penrith. Photography Justine GERARDY / AFP©
The Japanese ambassador raved about the daffodils and the glorious spring sunshine. The Australian envoy joked about beating the "Poms" at their own game. A life-sized Paddington waved and clapped.
On the steps of a centuries-old country house in northwest England, one of the nation's most eccentric cultural events—the Dalemain World Marmalade Awards—was in full swing.