Your cab, Miss... off to school prom in a big yellow tractor

STEPPING lady-like from a limo is tricky but try climbing down from a tractor cab in heels and a prom dress.

Sixteen-year-old Alex Carlos rehearsed climbing from the huge bright yellow JCB Fastrac tractor before it took her to the school prom in Brighouse from her home at Mithroyd Green Farm at Thornhill, Dewsbury.

Alex and her friends were upset when told that the limo they had ordered had been double booked.

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But her wish for a celebrity-style arrival at the Holiday Inn in Brighouse came true when her uncle Marshall Thackray agreed to drive her there in the big farm vehicle, which belongs to her grandfather, Charles Thackray, 70, a beef farmer.

Her aunt, Michaela West, said: "She had to help clean it first with her mum Angela because it was covered in you-know-what. It took two hours and needed a lot of elbow grease and using the vacuum cleaner. I bet nobody has ever been to a prom in one of those before."

Alex, a pupil at Castle Hall School in Mirfield, near Dewsbury, was delighted with her stand-in transport.

She said: "It was said as a joke at first but then I thought that I might as well ask to go in it. I was really excited. I had a few goes climbing in and out as a rehearsal. It has three steps to climb up and I had a dress on and massive heels.

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"Quite a few people were outside the hotel when I arrived and loads of people were inside looking out of the window. They said it was an amazing entrance."

Her trip back home at midnight was in a more conventional vehicle, a car.

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