BONG! Here is the news.

Bong! Church bells ring out again for Christmas.

Bong! Firefighters untangle chains from stonework.

Two years of silence has ended at St Mary's Church in Askham Richard.

The bells had fallen still after an over-enthusiastic campanologist got his clappers in a twist.

No one in the congregation had a ladder long enough to free the bells.

But after a phone call to Acomb fire station, villagers can ding dong merrily again.

That's the great thing about our fire service.

Got a problem?

Just give them a bell.

Updated: 11:11 Wednesday, December 22, 2004