AFTER

a Facebook appeal by the Rev Martin Jackson for volunteers to clear the snow outside his church for a wedding, 40 strangers turned up.

They made short work of the steep road outside St Cuthbert’s Church in County Durham, and Rebecca McKenzie joyfully, if a little chilly, married her groom Daniel Hodgson.

The happy couple left the church to a guard of honour with dozens of strangers holding shovels above their heads. If that’s not the winter spirit of the Good Samaritan, I don’t know what is.