Mummers raise £1,000

THE traditional mummers play on Boxing Day raised more than £1,000 for charity.

Performed for the 43rd year since its revival by the Christmas Boys of Winterbourn Down, the traditional open-air show beat last year's total for Paul's Place, the Coalpit Heath charity that enhances life for adults with physical disabilities, by £30.

Alan Mildren, from the Christmas Boys, said: "It was a really wonderful Boxing Day, the crowds were out in force and it was a bright sunny day.

"And it was nice for Becky, the new landlord in the Cross Hands pub, to have a welcome to village life."