Christmas convoys light up countryside communities

Festive tractor runs have been dazzling rural communities across the country, raising thousands of pounds for good causes.

And the festivities have taken a greener turn this year, with a methane-fuelled T6 New Holland driven by NNFCC business development director Lucy Hopwood - and borrowed from CNH - leading the line-up.

In Scotland, 250 fairy-lit tractors drove from Lockerbie to Dumfries and then through Johnstonebridge before waving to crowds at Lockerbie's cattle market and Merseyside farmer Olly Harrison's Christmas Convoy to support Alder Hey Children's Hospital took place.