Nursing staff yarn-bomb Shawbury overnight

A woolly Easter surprise has popped up in the village of Shawbury

Staff at a local nursing home secretly covered their village centre in knitted creations overnight.

Colleagues from River Meadows Nursing Home in Shawbury, Shropshire, set up the covert yarn-bombing mission, with 15 others including nursing home residents and other keen knitters.

Bollards, post-boxes and lampposts were some of things to be covered in Easter bunnies and crochet squares.

Organiser Marisa Moore said it had "cheered everyone up".

"You go for your loaf of bread, and there is a bunny sitting on a bollard smiling at you," she said.

Ms Moore said the operation had been "marvellous"

The group, now known as the "Yarn Benders", said one of the biggest missions was to measure everything up to ensure the knitted toppers fitted the objects correctly.

Ms Moore said the operation happened on 22 March, on a very wet and soggy night.

She added that the yarn explosion had been "the talk of the village" ever since it appeared the following morning.

The knitters decorated bollards all over the village