IT was a fun-packed Christmas in Teignmouth and Shaldon.

There were special lunches for older folk who might otherwise have been home alone, lively children's parties, a traditional panto, the sight of about 400 crazy souls garbed in weird and wonderful costumes plunging into the icy briny, and another group of madcaps in fancy dress running three-legged through the streets of Shaldon, stopping for a drink at the village hostelries.

Photographers were out and about recording the laughter and mayhem to be found on various pages inside this edition of the Teignmouth Post and Gazette.