Otley has launched its fifth annual Christmas film and song to celebrate its characters and assets, alongside the shops and beauty spots for which it is best known.
This year the short film follows a young girl as she ticks off an advent calendar list, supporting charities, shopping in quaint cobbled courtyards and searching for sprigs of holly in the town’s famed Chevin Forest Park.
To Katie Burnett, chairman of the Business Improvement District (BID), the film is all about Otley but its sentiment could signify any such Yorkshire market town. Rather than a ‘Christmas advert’ alone, she said, it’s almost a “thank you” to the people who make it home.
Miss Burnett said: “There’s something almost old-fashioned…
