Mansfield’s A-Star Media was one of fewer than 100 small businesses from around the country invited to Downing Street to mark the second Small Business Saturday, when small, independent businesses were put in the national spotlight.

Award-winning A-Star Media specialises in corporate film production. Directors Katrina Atherton and John Starkie, above, went to a Small Business Saturday Christmas fair inside Downing Street, which was attended by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.

Katrina said: “Huge amounts of the focus of small businesses are on retail, and there are some great independent retailers in Mansfield, but there’s also a strong service sector of businesses like ours so it’s fantastic we are being promoted too.”