A window in Ballaugh is catching the attention of passersby with its range of hand-knitted dolls honouring different key workers.

Seventy-one-year-old Lynne Foulis has kept herself busy and entertained during the pandemic by knitting teddies representing frontline workers.

While in isolation, she decided to thank the workers who come around to her estate as well as give recognition to frontline roles that many of her family members play.

Her collection includes knitted teddies of a nurse, paramedic, cleaner, refuse man, postman, a farmer with a sheep under his arm and rainbow babies for children.

Each toy has taken her roughly a couple of days to make. When asked what the reaction has been from passersby, she said: ’They absolutely love them! It brings a smile to their faces as they are out for the their daily walks.’

She plans to keep them for as long as the pandemic is in place while adding to the collection to show her appreciation of other workers, such as coastguards, police and lifeboat crew .

Mrs Foulis’s niece, Louise Molyneux, works as a care worker and her great niece Sarah Callow works as a nurse in London with her boyfriend Louie Valencia being a paramedic.

Her other great niece Tia Molyneux is also a care worker here and her son-in-law, Simon Cooper, is a station officer at Peel Coastguards.