Men dressed as women, women dressed as rugby players, and young boys had their legs waxed - Bradford did it all for Red Nose Day!

And as the stunts got crazier the pounds poured in as the city went Comic Relief crazy yesterday.

It seemed there wasn't a person who didn't take part in the fundraising day.

Even the Telegraph & Argus's office was a sea of red after Persil challenged staff to wear red clothing.

Pupils and teachers at St Peters RC School in Leeds Road, Barkerend, didn't even need to get into their uniforms as they wore their pyjamas to school.

Brave teenagers Tom McArthur and Tom Hollings, both 16, had a hair raising experience when they had their legs and chests waxed at Beckfoot Grammar School in Bingley.

Teacher Steve Gallop said: "There was a lot of mock pain and shrieking but I don't think they suffered too much!"

Red Nose Day literally went to the head of six-year-old Undercliffe First School pupil Kadie McLaughlin when mum Lisa teased her long blonde locks into wires spelling 'Comic Relief'.

Customer service girls at Orthocare (UK) Limited in Bradford got a bit hot under the collar when they wore their Bradford Bulls heroes' premier kit shirts generously leant by the club.

PE teacher Matthew West from Benton Park School in Rawdon dressed up as a woman all day and Bradford's Midland Hotel barman Mick Keating served wearing a waitress's frock.

Super fit Yorkshire Building Society staff did a sponsored bed push at St Luke's Hospital; Careers Bradford worker Lee Christy had his shoulder length hair shaved off; pensioners chomped on cold mashed potato at the Dudley Hill & Tong Social Club; Saltaire-based Pace Microtechnology fined workers if they didn't wear red and cooked up a jolly Comic Relief cake; lucky motorists took a ride in comedian Robbie Coltraine's 1951 cadillac at Otley-based Classic Car Group. . . the list just went on and on.

And who 'nose' what the people of Bradford will get up to next year!

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