I say, is that...? (From Gazette & Herald)

I say, is that...?

A NORTH Yorkshire village paid their respects to the royal family in their own special way during the Jubilee weekend - with Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles scarecrows.

Eden Noble, of Brompton-by-Sawdon, created her smartly-dressed bird frightener - after her neighbours put up another dressed as Camilla Parker-Bowles.

Both figures were among 25 entrants into the village's scarecrow competition, part of their golden jubilee celebrations.

Mrs Noble, a self-employed artist, said the big-eared and ruddy-cheeked straw-man had made people in the village "roar with laughter".

She said: "We were tempted to make a comment but he's waving across at his friend and we think that speaks for itself.

"Camilla has been in the background long enough and she deserves to be given more recognition."

Mrs Noble's daughter Daisy, eight, and son, Benjamin, six, helped dress the scarecrow in a double-breasted blazer, cravat, gardening gloves and yellow corduroys.

Other entrants in the village competition included Bob the Builder and a 'scared' crow. The winner was a figure of a man mowing a lawn created by a local gardener.

Updated: 10:33 Thursday, June 06, 2002