Red Nose Day 2009

One of the butchers from the Battlefield 1403 farm shop and cafe near Shrewsbury is hoping to make a lot of money for Comic Relief by standing in the stocks for the day on Friday 13 March.

He has been volunteered for the job by Kate Vaughan who works in the cafe. She organised fundraising for Children in Need last November and wants to exceed the £160 the staff raised on that occasion.

The stocks have been lent by the Battlefield Bowmen, re-enactors who practice at the Battlefield site.

Foster the Mascot ready for Comic Relief

Visitors will be charged £1 a time to throw wet sponges at the victim. Kate says he will not have to stand there all day: "We might give him a break at lunchtime."

There will also be specially baked 'Red Nose' biscuits on sale in the cafe and the staff will be getting dressed up in black and red.

Foster the mascot will be sitting outside the office with his collecting bucket on the day. Kate said he would be wearing his own Comic Relief deely boppers: "Unless he's eaten them of course. But that's Labradors for you."