IT wasn't so much a case of breaking a leg as breaking a wrist for budding thespian Marion McDonald.

During a rehearsal for a production of Pinocchio, performed by the St James' Players in Hoghton, Marion, who was dressed in wedding costume, walked backwards, tripped on her train and broke her wrist as it slammed into a fellow cast member's steel toe-cap boot!

In true panto style Marion, of Hoghton, insisted that the show went on - and it did, after her elaborate costumes were adapted to incorporate her sling!

Marion said: "All the other cast members could say was at least I had gone down gracefully, because my dress had billowed up like a cloud as I fell!"

The final show took place in St Joseph's Village Hall last weekend.

Marion, of Goosefoot Lane, added: "The costume people came up with a load of new slings, which matched my costumes so you wouldn't know the difference."

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