It may have been all in a good cause, but fashion and good sense flew out of the window to help the most in need at home and abroad.

Normally sensible, respectable business people threw off their work attire for daft t-shirts and silly fashions, others jumped in baths of jelly and youngsters dyed their hair red.

Shop staff went on the run and even the Bishop of Bradford acted the goat.

At Raphael Hair Salon, Wibsey, children had their hair sprayed red at a £1 a time, of course, and they were not the only ones getting involved - schools right across the district were doing their bit for Comic Relief all day.

Killinghall Primary School in Killinghall Road had hundreds of David Beckham lookalikes running around, as the England football captain's haircut proved most popular among the children attending their hair salon.

Brave Barry Shinn, a Year 6 teacher at Harden Primary, promised to permanently dye his hair red if £500 was raised for Red Nose Day by the school and duly kept his promise as the children managed to collect £694.

"It's incredible that we got that much", a colourful Andy commented.

"It was black for £100, blonde for £200 and red for £500, and I'd settled for blonde...I have to wait for it to grow out now".

Lister Lane School - whose children are mostly wheelchair users - held many events during the day to raise money, including mask-making, biscuit-decorating and apple-bobbing, as well as a disco.

Jenny Godfrey, a teacher at Beckfoot school in Bingley, pleased her class by volunteering for the sponsored sponge splash - with children queuing up for the chance to soak their teacher!

"It's worth 50p to hit them," said one of the pupils as they lined up.

Supermarkets across the district also joined in the Comic Relief fun, with staff at Sainsbury's in Greenagtes stepping out to raise buckets of cash for the charity.

Store manager Andy Firth lead the way as he took four shop workers - Shafiq Ibrahim, Steph Cave, Stephen Dresser and David North - on the road to Harrogate.

The team were jogging all the way to the Sainsbury's store in the North Yorkshire spa town, carrying buckets all the way.

Meanwhile, Clare Allman and Leanne Beecroft, two workers at Asda on Rooley Lane, sat in a bath full of baked beans all in the name of charity - despite them being freezing cold!

"We were going to go with jelly, but thought beans would be better", said Leanne.

At Asda in Pudsey, students Cheryl Jackson, Niall O'Loingsigh, Sarah Burton, Stephanie Ottey and Tina Daheley took part in a five-legged trolley dash around the store. They grabbed as many red products as possible in 20 minutes, raising £62 in the process.

Businesses were also feeling charitable. Staff at Bradford accountancy firm MGI Watson Buckle raised money down at Forster Square station, with their life-sized 'Tin Man' mascot, while staff at Cox Insurance in Little Germany enjoyed their fundraising by throwing pies at their managers!

Staff at Bingley Pool entered into the fundraising spirit by dressing in "bad taste", while Paul Cope, a member at Dragons health club in Yeadon sat in a bath full of raspberry jelly a minute for every pound raised - a chillingly long eight hours!

Paul Sykes, managing director of European Packaging Distributors on Prince Street, Bradford, took the 'Comic' part seriously as he dressed up as comedian Lily Savage to collect money.

Meanwhile, staff and students at Shipley College paid to see principal Jean McAllister let down her unusually long hair, while Gordon Wilson at the University of Bradford continually juggled with friends on a unicycle from 11am until 9.30pm.