THE East Lancashire hunks who stripped off for charity can be seen in the flesh tomorrow when they sell the final copies of their controversial calendar.

The saucy publication, which Lancashire County Council refused to back for fear of damaging its "name and reputation", has sold like hot cakes since it rolled off the presses in November.

Fund-raisers Jenny Purcell and Dianne Hodkinson, who came up with the idea for the calendar to help raise money for vital works to the Frank Street Old Age Pensioners' Centre in Barnoldswick, initially printed up 1,000 copies.

But when they sold out in the first day of sales, they quickly ordered another 1,000.

Around 700 of these have already been snapped up but the calendar boys will be at the Garden Bar, in St James's Street, Burnley, from 8pm tomorrow to sell of the final 300.

John Rayner, 41, one of the SITA workers who appears in the calendar, urged people to get down to the bar and buy their copy for £3.

Mr August said: "This is the last chance to get your hands on a copy of the calendar. There will be no more once the final 300 have been sold."

The boys, who work at SITA depots in Barnoldswick, Burnley, Padiham and Great Harwood, have become local celebrities since agreeing to strip off on a chilly autumn morning to pose for the publication. They have appeared on television and at the launch event in Barnoldswick they were mobbed by excited women hoping to get the autograph of their favourite calendar boy.

Jenny said she and Dianne were delighted with the publication's popularity. She said: "We would really like to thank everyone who has been involved with it for their support."

When Lancashire County Council refused to sponsor the project, its waste contractor SITA pulled the £2,000 printing costs it had offered.

But some of the costs have been met through donations from organisations, including Skipton Building Society and the GMB and TGWU unions.