FIVE people won the opportunity to have their hands cast in concrete and displayed outside the cinema — just like Hollywood celebrities.

Gina Coles, 40, of Orchard Way, was nominated by her friend Viv Burgess, 38, from Danes Road, for always putting other people first.

Mrs Coles has cared for her mother Bet Allen, who has arthritis, since she was a teenager.

She also helps elderly neighbours with chores including shopping and driving them to appointments.

Mother-of-two Mrs Coles, a teaching assistant at Brookside School, in Bucknell Road, said: “I still don’t quite think I deserve it. I grew up in a community where people looked after each other. It’s part of who I am.”

Phil Pointer nominated his disabled daughter Bonnie, 28, a film buff who used to travel to Aylesbury and Milton Keynes to see movies.

Miss Pointer, from Avon Crescent, developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in her hand when she was 13 playing netball. The condition spread to her legs and left her using a wheelchair.

She said: “It has been strange, but it’s been great to be here. I love going to the cinema. We have wanted one here for a long time.

“When I was 10 we had a petition to try and get a cinema in Bicester, so after 18 years it’s finally here. I’m very excited.

Janet Ray, the founder of Bicester Food Bank, was nominated by Rebecca Mathew.

Mrs Ray also organised Christmas dinner for those who were going to be on their own.

She said: “I feel quite honoured to be nominated and have my handprints put up on the wall. It also helps me advertise the foodbank.”

Bicester Community College pupil Eden Wilson and his sister, Brooke nominated Pauline Smith, their nanny.

Eden, 12, said Mrs Smith, 67, of Bunyan Road, always looks after the girls while their parents are at work.

Mrs Smith said: “I was a bit shocked when Eden phoned me to say we have won, I was almost speechless.”

Former Bicester Community College maths teacher Henry Hovard was nominated separately by his former pupils Scot Parkhurst, Graham Mullins and Ewan Makepeace.

Mr Hovard came to Bicester after serving in the Second World War and taught at Bicester Grammar School and later the community college. He was also a councillor and last chairman of Bicester Urban district council and first town mayor of Bicester Town Council All the winners were invited to a premiere screening of Monsters University last night.

Ryan Newland, of Vue Entertainment, said: “We were so touched by all the people that nominated friends, family members, colleagues and former teachers as locals worthy of celebrity status.”