Painting the pub pink for charity

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The Rodney in Saltash is sporting a new colour

A Cornish pub has been repainted a bright shade of pink to highlight National Breast Cancer Awareness month.

The makeover of The Rodney in Saltash was the idea of regular Trisha Grant, whose mother-in-law died from breast cancer 10 years ago.

She said she originally suggested painting the pub as a joke.

Volunteers carried out the temporary facelift with paint donated by a local company. The pub will stay pink until the end of the month.

Mrs Grant, who has also dyed her hair pink, said she had been talking to landlady Anita Heath when she came up with the idea.

"Almost as a joke I said to her, 'Why can't we paint the pub pink?' and she said 'OK'.

"It really escalated from there. It's been fantastic," she said.

Anita Heath said: "It's been quite amusing, people passing have been slowing down, as if to say 'What are they doing?'.

"But now they realise I'm not a lunatic painting the pub pink, it's all for charity."