RED NOSE fever is breaking out on the Fylde Coast once again as Comic Relief's national fund-raiser swings into action on Friday.

In Blackpool, men will be keeping in with the day's 'big hair' theme at Reform gym, Milbourne Street. Brave Dave Hughes of Blackpool's Odeon cinema will be one of several courageous fellas taking part in a sponsored leg wax.

Staff at Blackpool's Skipton Building Society, Birley Street are planning to let customers have their cake and eat it, along with coffee, in return for charity donations.

Their colleagues at the Cleveleys branch on Bispham Road will dress up, complete with obligatory big hair, and offer vouchers, champagne and chocolates in fund-raising competitions.

Blackpool DJ Lionel Vinyl has been sporting that afro to celebrate the big hair theme, already posing for pics this week in front of Blackpool's giant mirror ball on South Prom, transformed to become the world's biggest red nose.

And a hair-raising, and messy, event will take place at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, as a year seven class and teachers from Blackpool's Arnold School don red noses, red wigs and scoff ice-cream on the gravity-defying Revolution tomorrow.

In St Annes, more than 50 workers at green energy firm Inenco will light up a huge red nose on their building -- using pedal power!

Staff will take it in turns to form a 'human dynamo' for 12 hours, lighting up the company logo -- a red sphere -- at the St Andrew's Road North building.

"It's for a great cause and we hope the general public can support us either by taking a turn on the bicycle or dropping a few coins in the bucket," enthused managing director Nigel Withey.

Dave Lund, the engineer behind Inenco's nose, gave the stomach-churning promise: "The faster you pedal, the more the nose will run."

And Inenco has also promised to match pound-for-pound what staff raise in sponsorship.