YOUNG Gemma Andrews got some good advice from Pinocchio in July 1986 - never talk to strangers.

The six-year-old from Marston was told not to fall into the same trap as the famous cartoon character in Walt Disney's film who gets kidnapped.

The wooden puppet and his kidnappers Foul-fellow the fox and Gideon the cat visited St Nicholas First School with police as part of a nationwide Home Office and Disney campaign to stop children being lured away by strangers.

PC Wally Cox, of St Aldates's police station in Oxford, encouraged a pantomime-style chorus of children to say "no" when Pinocchio asked if he should go with Foul-fellow and Gideon.

He said: "The children reacted tremendously well, they loved it.

"The whole thing was a great success and a tremendous end to the children's term."

Acting headteacher Sue Powell said: "I think the children got the message, and the characters were absolutely superb."