Great Billing resident Lynne Smith has decided to leave her role working for Northamptonshire Newspapers to help run her son Matt Smith's fan club and set up a new shop for her business.

And despite him only appearing in the hit show for a minute so far, Lynne is already being inundated with fan mail for Matt.

She said: "With all the Doctor Who stuff, Matt really needed somebody to run his fan club, so I thought what better than to keep it in the family, because nobody else is going to do it like me.

"I think everybody who writes in should get an autograph, because he needs his fans.

"And already, we've had loads of stuff coming in.

"From the day he was first announced as the new Doctor, people have been writing to him from all over the world.

"We've had stuff come from Australia where somebody sent him a T-shirt with a Matt Smith logo on it and he's had hundreds of Christmas cards, birthday cards, all sorts of things."

At the moment, the BBC and Royal Mail are working together to manage the flow of fan mail to Lynne, but even before Matt's first series as the Doctor has started, she is receiving a large crate of post every week.

Lynne's shop, The Accessory Room, will run as part of the current Butterflies store in Brookland Road, Kingsley.

From a base inside Butterflies, Lynne will sell a range of goods, including handbags, jewellery and clothing accessories. The store will open at the beginning of April.