COULD this be the smallest tourist information centre in the UK? Volunteers in a small British village are ringing in the New Year with an attraction that ticks all the tourism boxes.

Volunteers in Nettleham, Lincolnshire, have set up stall in an iconic red public telephone kiosk. That’s a phone box to those of my generation, who used to rely upon them.

As a journalist in the 1970s, I spent many an hour searching out phone boxes from which to file copy to regional and national newspapers after covering big events, court cases and council meetings.

But this one, on the village green, is officially a ‘micro visitor centre’. It hadn’t been used as a phone box for more than 10 years before it was given its new lease of life.

Supported by West Lindsey District Council, and Nettleham Parish Council, the box contains the original telephone, with an information board on the history of the iconic kiosk.

There are free information leaflets available inside, including a guide for a walk around the village, written by 97-year-old local Pearl Wheatley, a member of the volunteer group.