A record 95 children and adults are to be confirmed at a special Millennium service.

The special Deanery confirmation service in St Helen's Church, Abingdon, on Advent Sunday, December 3, will be performed by the Bishop of Reading, the Rt Rev Dominic Walker.

Normally, confirmations are done at individual churches.

This year they are all are being done in one ceremony as a Millennium celebration.

The Abingdon Deanery covers Cumnor, Steventon, Sutton Courtenay and local villages as well as the town itself.

The service will be at 2.30pm.