HEREFORDSHIRE boasts one of the oldest customs of marking Palm Sunday.

In the villages of Kings Caple and Sellack, the day is marked by a procession from one church to the other and, after a shared church service, pax cakes, a sort of shortbread biscuit marked with the 'paschal lamb' are handed to parishioners with the wish that good neighbourliness be observed at all times.

The following year the procession is reversed and the event repeated at the other church.