HARRY Potter seemed to be the favoured theme when youngsters dressed up as characters from their favourite books on Friday.

Pupils and staff at St Gabriels Primary School, in Wilworth Crescent, Blackburn, joined in on Red Nose Day which helped realise £150 for a school in Kenya, where a Blackburn girl is spending her gap year.

Gillian Birch is helping to reconstruct Kanakra Primary in Kenya which was destroyed recently by termites.

Headteacher Harry Sharples said the day was a great success.

He said: "Everybody joined in and I went as the Demon headmaster, which was suggested by the staff and is probably quite apt."