Record breakers

Howard Lake | 6 April 1999 | News

Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day 1999 set out to be a record breaking day of fundraising and it succeeded.

Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day 1999 set out to be a record breaking day of fundraising and it succeeded. The charity has broken all telethon records by raising £27.4 million so far. This is £7 million more than had been raised at the equivalent stage by the last Red Nose Day in 1997.

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