Communities across the UK ate Hamentaschen, read the Megillah, waved their gragers and dressed up as their favourites Purim characters to remember the story of brave Esther and Mordechai.

Three-year-old Mathilda Marks Kennedy School pupil Ariella Greenfield, dressed as a mermaid. She attended the Purim Party at the Mill Hill school as well as the reading of the Megillah at Mill Hill Synagogue.