IT was a costume drama at Blackburn College when big-hearted students decided to raise money for the John Mark Riding Fund.

The five second year BTEC diploma care students donned their glad rags and went around the college collecting funds from fellow students and staff.

They raised £211 for the fund, set up to help four-year-old John Mark, a former Lancashire Evening Telegraph Baby of the Year, fly to America for treatment for a brain tumour.