CHRISTMAS came early for a group of pensioners thanks to Crossflatts Primary School.

Pupils helped raise most of the £175 needed to serve-up a three-course festive meal, including soup, turkey with all the trimmings, and trifle to 35 invited guests at Charnwood Community Centre, in Undercliffe.

Stephen Cannar, 32, who works at Crossflatts Primary and lives in Undercliffe, organised the event with help from his eight-year-old nephew Cameron Cannar, who is a pupil at Wellington Primary School in Bradford, and the deputy headteacher of Crossflatts Primary School, Nina Dobson.

Crossflatts pupils Isabel Aydon-Butler, 11, William Reynolds, ten, and Anna Exley, also ten, helped serve up the meal for which contributions were also made by the public after a story was published about Mr Cannar’s proposals for the special lunch.

As well as the meal, there was carol singing and dancing.

Mr Cannar said: “The children and elderly both thoroughly enjoyed the day.”