Oh, what a night

More than £13m has so far been raised across the country for the charity, which is also an improvement on last year's total of £12m raised on the fundraising night.

At midnight on Friday, the total for Wiltshire was announced as almost £240,000, compared to last year's £160,000.

Wiltshire Sound presenter Peter Heaton-Jones said: "The total raised is excellent, absolutely amazing. I was at two venues on Friday night the Thistle Hotel party and on stage at Asda in West Swindon, where I had to be a check-out assistant for the evening.

"Everyone had a fantastic time and I was only one of many presenters who were out and about in the town.

"When all the money has been collected the final total should exceed a quarter of a million and nationwide, the total is expected to be more than £20m."

One of the highlights of the evening at Asda was the Kylie Challenge.

This involved a trio of dancing girls from the Evening Advertiser's classified department and a trio from Wiltshire Sound dancing to Kylie's hit Can't Get You Out Of My Head.

The performance went down very well and drew quite a crowd.

Other events around the town included a rock and roll narathon at Lethbridge Primary School in Old Town on Friday, where children danced the day away dressed in 1950s costumes.

At Cricklade Leisure Centre, diving instructor Nick Gaunt held a 24-hour underwater marathon, which started at 6.30pm on Friday.

On Saturday, Nythe Community Centre held a drop in paint day and opened its doors for anyone who wanted to be an artist for a day.

Highlights of Friday also included staff at Sambourne House Antiques holding sponsored sleep in the window of the shop in the Brunel Centre. They slept in shifts for 24 hours from noon on Thursday and raised £1,000.

And if you were out and about in the town on Friday you might have seen the Pudsey taxi a Peugeot 106 dressed up and painted yellow by Millennium Cars.