FINAL year drama students at the University of Exeter are inspiring people to put pen to paper through innovative public performances.

Their latest event involved them dressing up as a letter, an envelope and a postbox with two postmen on bikes in Exeter's Southernhay. Their mission was to encourage people in Exeter, particularly business people, to write instead of email, as part of their final university assignment, Project Post.

Drama student Georgina Ower, 21, said: "The costume drama was a follow-up to our funeral piece where we mourned the loss of a postbox in the city. We've been staging lots of mini projects all around Southernhay, which is our target audience because there are lots of business people who are big Blackberry and email users.

"We staged it at lunchtime and handed out envelopes with information about what we're doing and why we're doing it. We had a really positive response from people."