18 NAVY NEWS, MAY 2007
Lynx’ eye
on a
red nose
A LYNX helicopter from RNAS
Yeovilton helped schoolchil-
dren from a Bristol school
celebrate Red Nose Day.
The pupils and staff of
Clevedon Community School
donned pieces of red card
to make up a 1,400-person
mosaic of the Comic Relief
logo.
Headteacher John Wells
said: “We were really excit-
ed about bringing the whole
school together and with that
extra bit of support from the
Royal Navy – we feel we have
contributed to Comic Relief
in a very enjoyable way.”
Each of the students gave
£1 to be part of the mosa-
ic, with the Lynx from the
Operational Evaluation Unit
providing a unique eye in the
sky on the finished picture
(left).
Picture: LA(Phot) Paul A’Barrow
Fête-al attraction
in Faslane base
Picture: LA(Phot) Darby Allen
Lusty ‘nose’ how to box
A VILLAGE fête in the
CARRIER HMS Illustrious ran a onlooker “fought like two men
boxing competition as an unusual – Laurel and Hardy”.
canteen at Clyde Naval Base
cash-raising challenge for Comic The afternoon of boxing raised
proved a week-long favourite
Relief. £200 for Red Nose Day, and gave
in the run-up to this year’s The ship’s Red Nose Day all on board a much-needed break
Comic Relief, featuring such
Boxing Extravaganza asked par- after an intensive training peri-
stalwarts of the charity scene
ticipants to donate £1 for 30 sec- od working up as the Fleet flag-
as a tombola, guess the
onds in the ring with the ship’s ship and High Readiness Strike
sweets in the jar, and name
LPT to knock off his red nose for Carrier.
the teddy competitions.
a prize. During two weeks of busy fly-
Of course, no one mentioned ing, RN and RAF pilots prac-
These traditional events were
that this particular physical train- tised ship-borne operations with
bolstered by a general knowledge
ing instructor was the RM boxing the GR9 Harriers of IV(AC)
quiz and a five-a-side football
champion, LPT Kev ‘Baby-Faced Squadron RAF.
competition to add to the
Assassin’ Green... ● (Above) ET(WE) Andrew Bar-
fundraising festivities.
Several contestants came close, rie, LPT Kev Green and AET
By the end of the week, the
with particular mention of Cdr Nathan Daubney – participants
sweets were counted to the benefit
David Heley, the carrier’s execu- in the Illustrious Red Nose Day
of Iain McLaggan’s sweet tooth,
tive officer, who according to one Boxing Extravaganza
the teddy was named Lacey by
Rick Berrington, and the MOD
Guards team of John Egan,
Andy Downs, Steve Flanagan
and Caroline Walls had won the
quiz with their encyclopaedic
knowledge of TV comedy theme
tunes and Carry On films.
Some 21 teams from the
Scottish base took on the football
competition at the Sportsdrome,
with the Fleet Protection Group
Royal Marines team pushed hard
in the last round by the Shiplift
team, but it is perhaps no surprise
that the green berets did not
concede defeat.
Organiser Paul Currie of BNS
Community Investment Group
said: “The football turned out to
be a fantastic competition and the
number of teams who took part
Ninety-nine red balloons
exceeded all our expectations.
“We’d really like to thank
TRAINEE sailors from McKenzie Division at HMS Raleigh bring on the balloons for a group of
everyone who took part.”
Torpoint children who got their marching orders for Comic Relief. Some 60 children from Carbeile
In one week of fundraising the
Junior School and Torpoint Community College were drilled in the intricacies of Naval marching by
staff, who could be found sporting
HMS Raleigh’s parade staff. At the end of a fine display of amateur marching, Cdre John Keegan,
red noses and red wigs, at the
the Commodore of HMS Raleigh, took the salute – then the balloons were let loose to raise money
Clyde base netted almost £2,000
for the comical charity. Picture: Dave Sherfield
for Comic Relief.
24 hours, but no Kiefer
AN unusual fundraiser took place at HMS Temeraire in Portsmouth,
where the energetic PTIs spent 12 hours in Tigger-like activity during a
sponsored ‘Bounce-a-thon’ organised by POPT Toogood. And at Gos-
port’s HMS Sultan, the four rowers (LA(SE) Mo Morrison, Flt Lt Stu
Ashley, PO(SE) Bagsy Baker and CPO Scott Mathewson) notched up 12
hours on the rowing machine to bundle up more comical cash.
Picture: LA(Phot) Carl Osmond
By Hercules to Banja Luka
● Lt Andy Haywood prepares to scale the tower at Culdrose
AS a last farewell to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the remaining 550
Because it’s there
British military at Banja Luka celebrated Red Nose Day with red
noses specially flown by RAF Hercules to Banja Luka. Lt Helen THE air traffic control tower at RNAS Culdrose may not be quite
Munro RN rang up Sainsbury’s at Wootton Bassett, the nearest Mount Everest – but it is if you climb the 90ft tower 134 times
to RAF Lyneham, and the kind folk delivered the red noses to the as Lt Andy Haywood figured out for his Comic Relief fundrais-
RAF base to wing their way over the seas to the Balkan nation. ing efforts.
The money-making was further bolstered by a home-made The Air Traffic Control Officer scaled the distance from base
chariot race around the base for the title of ‘the last and greatest camp to summit of Everest, and descended back down again.
Banja Lukan charioteer’, and Batman and Robin patrolled the site, While Andy set himself a tall order for the day, his colleagues
collecting money for targetted ‘Flan Attacks’. in the air traffic control tower went down the more traditional
● Lt Helen Munro (right) and Flt Lt Williams RAF with a red-nosed route of making money – a non-uniform day.
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