Festive spirit was in short supply as a hit-and-run driver damaged a mum’s car just days before Christmas.

Susan Upton first noticed the damage to her blue Nissan Almera, which was caused outside her home in Parker Way, Halstead, when she was driving her children to Holy Trinity Primary School last Friday.

It is thought it was caused the night before.

The mother-of-four said: “I’m fuming.

“How can someone hit it like that and then just drive off?”