IT'S not easy when a leading actor is taken ill just before the performance, but that's exactly what happened when Holme School, Headley, was about to stage its Nativity play on Tuesday.

The girl playing the innkeeper, Vikki Sharkley, and narrator was taken ill. But at the last minute her sister Charlotte stepped in and took over the role and gave a marvellous performance.

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