Orders have come flooding in for the saucy calendar in which eleven women from the sleepy village of Cracoe - all members of the local Women's Institute - strip off for charity.

But people clamouring for a copy will have to wait until Monday when the bulk of the 3,000 copies go on sale.

At least 1,000 calendars have been ordered and photographer Terry Logan, who took the sepia snaps in his house, expects there will have to be a re-run.

"We're featured on German television this morning and Tricia Stewart has appeared on Australian television, radio in South Africa and has done another ten interviews for radio.

"The response has been amazing. At this rate we will be sold out in no time," he said.

The Millennium calendar features the women, including mothers and grandmothers, baring all behind strategically- placed props.

It is the inspiration of Tricia Stewart, of Cracoe. She and colleagues in Rylstone and Distrct WI decided to pose for the calendar to help fund leukaemia research after the death from cancer of their friend John Baker, a Yorkshire Dales National park officer.

Orders can be placed for it at Jennings Brewery Shop, The Castle Brewery, Cockermouth, Cumbria, CA13 9NE by sending £5 plus a £1 for postage.

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