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Red Nose Day 2009 smashes record

Red Nose Day raised an incredible £59,187,065 this year, surging past 2007's £40m. The total after all donations have been counted will be announced later in the year. Watch highlights…

French and Saunders do funny for money

Here they go again! But Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders will perform as a double act for the last time on Red Nose Day. It's wigs and dungarees all round…

The all-new Red Nose Day total

The Comic Relief team has been busy adding up all this year's donations and has announced that 2007's total is a whopping £63,019,955. The money will now be put to…

Comic Relief Does The Apprentice

Late in 2006, Comic Relief challenged two teams of celebrities to impress the boss in a special edition of The Apprentice. In a girls-versus-boys showdown, they must use their their…

Red Nose Night lineup

Friday 16th March is Red Nose Day and from 7pm you can join in the fun as Comic Relief takes over BBC One for eight hours of fundraising and extraordinary…

Walk This Way on sale

From today you can get your hands on the official Comic Relief single, Walk This Way by Sugababes vs Girls Aloud. Read more about the single. With production by Dallas…

Comic Relief's charity auctions

Once again this year Comic Relief is partnering with eBay UK to run a series of fundraising auctions. Right now the bidding is underway for a gaggle of one-of-a-kind memorabilia…

Woman's Hour Needs a Man

Radio 4's popular magazine show Woman's Hour is supporting Comic Relief by electing a man to co-present the programme for a day. Listeners are being asked to choose between Kelvin…

The Big Welsh Joke

BBC Wales is running a series of programmes to find the funniest joke in Wales. The Big Welsh Joke invites people from all over Wales to show off their amateur…

Comic Relief Does Car Booty

There was brisk business in a special edition of lifestyle show Car Booty for Comic Relief. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders were one of six celebrity pairs competing to raise…

Fame Academy night 1: Entrance exam

Rowland Rivron was the casualty of the first night of Celebrity Fame Academy. Along with him in the bottom three with the lowest votes were Angellica and Miranda. After Angellica…

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Chris Moyles launches Rallyoke

The Radio 1 breakfast show unveiled its latest offensive to raise Comic Relief cash this morning. Red Nose Rallyoke continues the idea of 2005's successful Red Nose Rally with the…

Who's who in Fame Academy

The students are filing in for Comic Relief's Celebrity Fame Academy. The final list of stars looks like this: Angellica Bell (CBBC presenter) Colin Murray (Radio 1 DJ, TV presenter)…

Red Nose Day 2007 launches

Today (Wednesday) saw the press launch of Red Nose Day 2007, with details released of what we can expect. Those present at the London Eye included Russell Brand, making his…

Red Nose Day 2005 grand total

2005's grand total came in at an amazing £65,097,610 -- another record-breaking year of fundraising. One third of the money will be spent helping people in the UK and two-thirds…

Red Nose total-so-far at £49m

The latest figure for the amount raised has gone up to £49 million. This includes the £37.8m raised on Red Nose Day and cash added so far from public fundraising…