WHEN the churchyard at St Andrew’s Church in Old Headington, Oxford, needed a spruce-up, there was no shortage of volunteers.

Members of the congregation came forward and offered to do the work.

They cleaned the gullies around the church building, cut ivy from the churchyard wall and cleared a large area of undergrowth.

The operation, which took place in 1983, was organised by the two churchwardens, Neville Mason and Avril Banton.