SANTA turns his hand to any job that needs doing, even being a lollipop patrolman.

Normally, the Green Cross Code Man helped children cross the road in 1979, but Father Christmas proved to be a more than adequate substitute outside Yarnton playgroup.

Earlier, he had opened the playgroup’s new £7,000 building in the grounds of William Fletcher Primary School.

Memory Lane this week


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