A VILLAGE pub has supplemented the usual dcor of exposed beams and horse brasses with a pair of doors from the Channel Four Big Brother house. The doors to the boys and girls bedrooms will be familiar to anyone who watched the cult fly-on-the-wall game show when it was screened in summer 2000.

They were sold off as part of an auction of artefacts from the specially-built house in Bow, East London, where the programme was filmed.

They now adorn the gents' and ladies' toilets at the Harrow Inn, Wanborough.

Landlord Barry Hillier said: "As a publican, I don't get much chance to watch TV so I wouldn't say I was a Big Brother fan.

"But I think the first series really gripped the nation, it was getting so much press, and we like to do different things here."

He added: "Most people probably won't know what they are so I may put a notice up."

Big Brother was a ground-breaking TV game show in which eight contestants were filmed 24 hours a day and members of the public voted them out of the house one by one.

The Harrow Inn is also the home of a life-size model of Big Brother winner, Craig Phillips, which he made himself as one of the tasks on the show.

These quirky TV relics were donated to the pub by customer Tim Gorst, 67, an IT consultant from Carlisle.

He is a collector of TV memor-abilia who bought the items during a telephone auction run by Channel Four.

He said: "I have an interest in TV history and having something from the first series of Big Brother appealed to me."

Mr Gorst was in the Wiltshire area researching his family history when he went in to The Harrow.

He said: "I had a few pints and a lovely meal, I got chatting to the landlord and we just struck up this deal.

"I didn't want any money for them but it will be nice to see them there when I go back. They were sitting in my garage doing nothing."

He added: "I don't want to say exactly how much I paid for them, but it wasn't a vast amount."