Youngsters all over the island were helping to raise money for Comic Relief on Red Nose Day last week.

The children took part in everything from ’mad hair’ days and cake sales to talent contests but by far the most imaginative event was at Cranford Nursery School where children aged two to four were wrapped up as ’mummies’ - the ancient Egyptian kind.

Owner Fiona Harcourt said: ’We got the idea from one of the Red Nose Day stickers. We wrapped them all up with toilet paper and bandages so everybody had a turn and then they had a turn wrapping each other up so it was lots of fun.’

The children had been inspired by the story of Haja, a little girl who lives on a rubbish dump in Sierra Leone: money raised by Comic Relief will allow her family move into a one-room house.

A number of primary schools also held fundraising events on Red Nose Day.

Henry Bloom Noble School held a ’dress what you want to be when you are older day’, Sulby School asked the children to come dressed in their sports kit and Willaston Scool held a ’mad hair day’ competition, with children wearing their hair in styles including a bird’s nest and a ’pouring’ coke bottle. Scooil Vallajeelt held a ’wear red day’, with a cake sale open to parents in the afternoon, and St Mary’s School in Douglas put their talent on show with a ’Stars in their Eyes’ competition.