Calendar girls bare all 10 years on

THE widow of the man who inspired The Calendar Girls struggled to contain her emotion yesterday as she launched a new nude charity calendar to mark the 10th anniversary.

Angela Baker broke down as she spoke about her husband, John, whose death from lymphoma sparked the decision of 11 Rylstone Women’s Institute (WI) members to strip off for a calendar to raise money for leukaemia research in 2000.

Yesterday, six of the original women launched their first full colour calendar at Harvey Nicholls in Leeds, 10 years after their original set of images went on sale.