Last week in East Sussex, students at St Leonards-Mayfield School staged a live crib service in the local village (pictured). Mary and Joseph processed down the high street guiding a donkey and singing carols. Meanwhile, a group in the north-east of England is taking the story of Christ’s birth to shoppers. On 20 December a group from the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle is staging a “Nativity flash mob” in a shopping centre in Hartlepool and in Newcastle’s central statio