Flipping brilliant: Shelby Holmes will be swapping the fairground for Oxford this autumn after some excellent A-levels A Gypsy who works in an amusement park is off to Oxford University after gaining outstanding A-level results, making her one of the first travellers to make it there. Shelby Holmes, 18, who is happy to call herself a gypsy is head girl at St Brigid’s School in Denbigh, north Wales, has been travelling the UK outside term time all her young life. But now she will have to put down new roots after her place to read English literature at Trinity College, Oxford, was confirmed.
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Shelby Holmes is one of the first travellers to go to Oxford and will read English literature
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But she couldn't be out celebrating last night as she had to be at work bingo calling
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She will still travel around Britain with her family outside term time
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