Nudes flash: calendar is really going global! (From Worcester News)

Nudes flash: calendar is really going global!

8:20pm Wednesday 9th January 2013 in News By Neil Watts

A DARING charity calendar has been flying off the shelves in honour of a popular man who was killed in a car crash.

More than 3,000 copies of the Game Birds 2013 calendar have been sold, raising in excess of £22,000 for the Midlands Air Ambulance in memory of Richard Warr.

The 21-year-old, of Pencombe, near Bromyard, who worked at Laylocks Garden Centre, Bromyard Road, Worcester, died when his Mazda pickup truck collided with a Seat Ibiza near Bayton, Herefordshire, on Friday, August 5, 2011. The cheeky calendar features 24 women from the Bromyard and Leominster area almost baring all in a variety of country pursuit poses.

Zoe Hooper, who thought of and organised the project which was shot by Mr Warr’s sister Gemma Thomas, said money was still coming in and the final figure could reach £25,000, smashing their original target. She said: “We are extremely pleased and quite shocked at the incredible reaction to our calendar as we originally aimed to raise £10,000.

“Rich’s friends and family have been overwhelmed by the success of the calendar in his honour and are very proud of everyone involved.

“As his sister Gemma said, Rich would have loved the idea of being known across the world as a ‘ladies man’.”

The charity has three aircraft flying an average of 3,000 missions a year and it costs more than £6 million a year to keep the air ambulance flying.

Laylocks Garden Centre was started by Richard’s father Martin Warr in 1973.

The present site – off the A44 Worcester to Bromyard Road – was bought in 1981.

For more details and information, go to gamebirds calendar.co.uk.