Ban on spinners' naked calendar

All but 1,000 of the 10,000 calendars have been pulped

A charity nude calendar by a group of spinners and weavers has been banned because it is too raunchy.

Members of the East Grinstead Spinners and Weavers Guild in West Sussex posed for the publication to raise money for the Rare Breeds Survival Trust.

But the East Sussex Guild of Spinners and Weavers banned it from being sold at meetings as it was too revealing.

Now the organisers have been left £15,000 out of pocket after 9,000 of the 10,000 calendars were pulped.

'Best of the bunch'

Francis Fuller, one of the models, said: "We weren't concerned about hiding nipples and bits of the anatomy that the British public seemed to be ashamed of showing.

"So it was not until the photographs had been produced that we realised that things were on show that possibly even page three might be a little bit hesitant about showing."

Joan Kendall, calendar organiser, said: "It was just very sad because it was just a very beautiful calendar and everybody who saw it said it was quite beautiful and probably the best of the bunch of the 200 made in 2004.

"I would do it again in an instant - I have no reservations about getting my clothes off for a good cause. I just do not want to be left with another debt."