Postmen will be first-class males when they do the Full Monty for the Bradford Millennium Scanner Appeal.

The group - wearing specially-adapted uniforms - will put their stamp on the £1 million appeal when they strip to the sound of Tom Jones's Keep Your Hat On in a performance for colleagues from the Royal Mail sorting office in Forster Court, Bradford, next month.

Organisers say there has already been a huge demand for tickets for the show although the performers will not deliver the full package - their blushes will be spared by sequinned G-strings.

The show has been inspired by postwoman Melanie Doherty who will herself be dressing up with four of her colleagues to perform as the Spice Girls.

She has personal experience of the MRI scanner which saved her life 18 months ago when she had a brain haemorrhage.

Would-be stripper David Wolstencroft said the six-strong group had been persuaded to take part in the show by the promise of free beer.

"It should be a laugh once we've got all the moves together although it will be totally different from the film," he said.

He hinted that it would be more like a 'half-Monty' leaving something to the imagination.

Melanie, 19, said she had been inspired to get her colleagues raising cash for the T&A-backed appeal by watching the Full Monty.

"There were about 15 volunteers at first but when they realised we were serious most of them bottled out," she said.

The MRI scanner saved her life when she collapsed at work a week before her 18th birthday and was rushed to hospital but existing scanners at Bradford Royal Infirmary could not detect the problem.

She was transferred after nearly 24 hours to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield where MRI pictures showed she had suffered a brain haemorrhage.

Surgeons carried out brain surgery in the nick of time as her condition deteriorated.

"The MRI showed what the problem was and they had to operate straight away otherwise I would have been dead," she said.

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