Village that decorates its phone box every Christmas

In 2019 the artist and sculptor, Cary Outis, created a Santa train for the phone box

A Fenland village has enjoyed a "blinged-up" defunct telephone box every Christmas after it was bought for £1 in 2010.

Local artists have helped decorate the box in Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire, but the majority of the designs were created by Cary Outis, who has transformed it into pieces of art enjoyed by both locals and visitors alike.

Here is a selection of some of the festive guises that have graced the phone box over the years.

Mr Outis, an artist and sculptor, tries to reuse as much material from previous years, and his giant Santa face creation has been repurposed and "improved" over time, he said.

For his giant Rudolph sculpture he used old pipe insulation on wire for the antlers, and draped fake fur over the plywood reindeer's body.

"I felt a bit sorry for Rudolph, as Santa was getting all the action," he said.

Mr Outis said some of the pieces he has created over the years have thrown up particular challenges.

Not least was this year's design - a larger-than-life emperor penguin.

Admitting he was not the best at sewing, he said it took him about three days to make from fabric with wooden supports, and attaching the head to the body was not the simplest of tasks.