An Ashford trio have triggered the countdown to Christmas by adorning the drovers roundabout with festive decorations.

Brother and sister Alex and Natashia Whitewood, and their friend Laura Gray, headed to the Simone Weil Avenue roundabout around 10pm yesterday.

The annual festive prank, which has become somewhat of an Ashford tradition, saw them add red hats and tinsel to the black metal cows and the drover.

It's the fourth year running the decorations have been put up and his year the group added a festive cardboard tree to the busy roundabout.

Support worker, Alex, 30, said: "If we could afford to decorate the whole borough, we would!

"It popped up on my Facebook that we'd done it a year ago, so we bought some tinsel and baubles and headed out again.

"We do really enjoy doing it, it's a bit of fun and we're just glad that people love it."