Amy's Red Nose mannequin marathon

A Cardiff shopper checks whether Amy Chase is the real thing

A teenager has raised hundreds of pounds for Comic Relief posing as a mannequin for the day in a department store window.

Amy Chase, 19, used her performance skills to persuade shoppers at Howells store in Cardiff to make donations.

She spent the entire working day posing in a window display. She had her hair and make up done in front of passers-by and was dressed in garish clothes.

She was one of thousands of people in Wales joining Red Nose Day events.

"Lots of people have been staring at me trying to figure out if I'm real or not and I've had lots of fun trying to shock them by making sudden moves," she said.

Elsewhere, a team of Royal Mail staff in Cardiff cycled the equivalent of the distance from the Welsh capital to the Anglesey village with the UK's longest name - Llanfair PG for short - and back on an exercise bike.

The 30 staff at Cardiff's Royal Mail centre would have gone to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and back - a total of 600 km or 377.6 miles in total.

Pupils at Georgetown Primary School in Tredegar raised £566

Donations and sponsored volunteers, together with Royal Mail matching all the monies, raised almost £1,000.

Elsewhere, T-Mobile staff in Merthyr Tydfil gave up their time to staff the phones and take donations throughout the BBC's live television broadcast on Friday.

Pupils and staff at Ysgol Maes Dyfan special school in Barry took part in a sponsored hokey-cokey. Many of the school's staff also dressed up in inflatable sumo wrestler outfits.

Tai Hafan housing association, which helps vulnerable women and children, held a sleep-over in aid of Comic Relief at Tesco in Bangor on Friday from 0500 GMT to Saturday 0600 GMT.

Pupils at St Michael's Primary in Abergavenny went to school in their pyjamas to raise money for Comic Relief.