FUNDRAISERS at a Marlbrook hotel are getting ready to flex their muscles this Friday and collect cash for Comic Relief.

Staff and members at the Hilton Hotel's Living Well Health Club, in Birmingham Road, are set to row 150 miles on a machine at the venue.

They are supporting the national pants to poverty campaign.

KINDHEARTED keep-fit fanatics will be battling it out to raise cash for Comic Relief's pants to poverty campaign.

Staff at Bromsgrove District Council's Dolphin Centre, in School Drive, will be competing against a team of customers to row more than 200,000 metres.

Contestants will use rowing machines, the same ones used to train the British Olympic squad, and will take part in the gruelling task from 9am to 9pm this Friday.

The centre's team captain Mark Honeyghan said: "We all hope to raise over £1,000 each."

The event will be held at the centre's cafeteria and supporters are welcome.

TIPPLERS can pick up an old git -- or even an old tart -- at a Bromsgrove wine warehouse which is joining in the Red Nose Day fun on Friday.

Noble Rot Wine Warehouse, in Market Street, is featuring two of its most humorous bottles of plonk.

A robust red called 'Old Git' is bound to get your palate tingling but leave room for a sip of 'Old Tart,' a fragrant fruity white wine.

The bottles of wine cost £3.99, with ten per cent going to Comic Relief's pants to poverty campaign.

Managing director Julie Wyres said: "These easy drinking wines are great fun, great value and great-tasting.

"They are sure to raise a laugh as well as cash for charity and we are hoping lots of people will give them a try."

JOIN in the Comic Relief fundraising fun at a Bromsgrove pub which is putting on a host of activities including a yard of ale drinking contest, bingo and It's a Knockout.

Go along to the Greyhound pub, in Worcester Road, Rock Hill, from 7pm this Friday night to join in the fun and help raise cash on Red Nose Day.