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Article: Calendar Girls aim to raise [Pounds]1m with sweet idea
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- May 23, 2007
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HAVING posed in the nude and been immortalised in a movie box
office hit, the Calendar Girls are now featured on a box of
chocolates.
The Ladies of Rylstone and District Women's Institute have found
worldwide fame and raised more than [Pounds]1.3m for Leukaemia
Research since they created their calendar eight years ago.
Now they have teamed up with Skipton firm Whitakers Chocolates to
launch a box of chocolates which will be sold across the country to
raise [Pounds]200,000 for charity.
Six of the original Calendar Girls visited family-owned Whitakers'
factory yesterday to see the first chocolates roll off the production
line.
Priced at [Pounds]1.99, the boxes contain 12 squares of dark ...