A festive bell ringing event originally organised to take place only in Forth Valley has attracted over 80,000 people from all over the world in less than four days.

Lauren Sinclair, 36, from Falkirk, created the Facebook page on Saturday October 24 at 2.30pm with the goal of spreading cheer and ‘keeping Christmas alive’ by encouraging her community to stand on their doorsteps ringing bells at 6pm on Christmas Eve.

Within 24 hours, the page had hit the 20,000 mark and shows no signs of slowing down. In the last 24 hours the page increased from 50,000 to over 80,000 followers.

Scottish Christmas bell ringing event goes global and hits 80K followers in less than four days