Flipping good day for pancakes

People young and old across Shropshire and Mid Wales were busy making pancakes in a centuries-old tradition today.

From an open-air museum in the Ironbridge Gorge to a closure-threatened primary school near Bridgnorth, people were busy whipping up flour, butter and eggs to create their Shrove Tuesday goodies.

Blists Hill Victorian Town, near Ironbridge, has been entertaining visitors with daily pancake races.

Staff dressed in period costume have been dashing through the streets with their frying pans from the New Inn to the candle factory.

Elsewhere teams from the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the media were staging a Parliamentary Pancake Race.

And celebrity chefs including John Torode and Sophie Grigson were attempting a pancake-flipping relay sprint in aid of Sport Relief, in Tower Hill, central London.

By Peter Johnson

Staff at Blists Hill get some early practice ahead of the race.

Caroline Ward, Chris White and Jane Armour-Chelu perfect their technique.

The race gets under way.

'Mrs' Gibbons gets her collar fealt by the local constabulary and reveals she's masquerading as a man!

Caroline Ward heads for the finish line.