MEMBERS of Abingdon Amblers Athletic Club were determined to shed the extra pounds they had put on over Christmas.

They figured that a healthy post-festive jog would do the trick – and if you can do it in fancy dress, so much the better!

These cheerful keep-fit fans were among dozens of people who gathered in Abingdon Market Square to take part in the annual Jolly Holly Jog, in aid of Helen House hospice in Oxford.

Leading the charge in the picture are cigarette-smoking Hilda Ogden, of Coronation Street fame (alias Jacqui Druce) and two Christmas fairies (Lorna Thynne and Treedy Welch).