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Is this Britain’s weirdest nativity scene?

An electrical appliance shop has attempted to recreate the birth of Christ with HENRY HOOVERS.

Owner Kris Sale asked his 16 year-old son Ashley to set up the display in his shop window.

Three of the vacuum cleaners – named Charles, George and Edward – are meant to be the three wise men with crowns on top of them.

Two more, a Henry and a Hetty, are Joseph and Mary and a knitted ‘baby Henry’ as Jesus completes the scene.

They all stand on a pile of straw in a ‘stable’ made from cardboard and lengths of wood with a star stuck on top.

Kris, 39, claims the crude festive scene has already attracted new customers to his Sale Appliances shop in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.

He said: “It’s amazing, kids especially love it. We came up with the idea but I didn’t think Ashley would actually see it through.

“Then he started getting all the straw and I thought it was best to let him get on with it.

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“It has definitely increased sales. We thought people had forgotten us since we moved but it’s jogged people's memory about where we are now.

“We are always thinking of new ideas for the windows and it’s great to know people are appreciating it.”

The no-expense nativity scene is not the first unusual display Kris has come up with for his shop window.

The father-of-four has turned a washing machine into a real fish tank, and put a dummy repair man inside a cooker to make it look as though the appliance was being mended.

He added: “We’re planning to change the nativity for New Year’s Eve. The Henrys are going to have a party. It’ll be one heck of a bash.

“And on Valentine’s Day it’ll just be Henry and Hetty having a romantic meal together.”

Kris said he may put out a collection box to raise money for a local homeless charity.