Binding loops from straw, under a twinkling ribbon of festoon lights, Laura Dales might have stepped straight from a nativity scene.
It is a custom dating back centuries and it took place in Barwick-in-Elmet near Leeds yesterday – a village that is home to Britain’s tallest traditional maypole.
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