3 October 2006
DailyRecord
CANCER sufferers have stripped off to become Scotland's very own Calendar Girls.
The victims and their friends and daughters braved the weather on Orkney and bare all for charity - just like in the hit movie.
The 16 models, aged up to 67, admit they could not grace the catwalk.
But after surviving cancer, they reckon they are able to cope with anything.
Organiser Joan Gall, 63, who appears as Miss June, thought it would be hard to get shy islanders to strip.
She said: "I thought we would never get them to do what I wanted to but they did.
"They were absolutely terrific.They got better the longer it went on, it was just a case of clothes off and that was it."
Local photographer Fran Gray took the pictures over a fourmonth period at Orkney's Skaill House and Merkister Hotel.
Five hundred calendars went on sale yesterday for £6.99.
