Holly lights up Diss High School prom by arriving in fire engine

A Diss High School student made quite the entrance when she arrived at her end-of-year prom in a fire engine.

Holly Sutton followed a family tradition by riding with her grandad, Paul Scott, to Applewood Hall in Banham.

Mr Scott, who was a retained firefighter for 35 years, started his career with Diss, before moving to Long Stratton, where he became a watch manager.

Holly’s mum, Lorna, told the Diss Express: “Dad took me to St Andrew’s Church in Scole in the fire engine when I got married in 2005, so it was a proud moment to see Holly making this a sort of family tradition.

“She was delighted when her grandad said he could take her to her prom as she said it was the ‘coolest transport’ to go there in a fire engine and even got the chance to have the blue lights on at one point.”

Fresh from completing her GCSEs, the 16-year-old is set to begin a two-year football education course at Norwich City FC in September.

And should her football career not take off, the teenager has said she would like to become a firefighter ... just like her grandad.