A rural village can lay claim to being one of the most honest communities in the country after setting up a tiny unattended grocery store - in a phone box.

The charming facility has been set up inside a vacant red phone box next to the site of the village's former shop stocking milk, sandwiches, newspapers and other everyday items.

And amazingly, despite the box being left open with food and newspapers left in at all times of the day, not one of the items has gone missing since its opening.

The tight-knit community of Draughton, North Yorks., was left without a shop after the post office closed – leaving the residents without basic items.

Kind-hearted Lewis Cooke, 49, who runs a newsagent four miles away in Skipton, delivers goods to the derelict phone box, which was bought from BT for just one pound by the parish council.

Parish clerk Jane Markham, 50, said the unusual telephone box collection system worked because villagers were so trustworthy.