TEENAGERS Hannah O'Sullivan and Kirsty Smyth have taken popular TV show Changing Rooms one doorstep further - by changing houses!

The school pals have decided to raise money for Comic Relief by spending the next three nights in each other's homes.

The swap was delayed because Hannah's parents had relatives staying but, from tonight, they will be settling into each other's bedrooms and getting used to staying a different set of parents, brothers and sisters for the unique three-day fund-raiser.

It was Hannah's mum Tracy who inadvertently prompted the switch when she joked to 13-year-old Kirsty: "I'd take you for her any time."

Kirsty, of Bankside Lane, Bacup, said: "People go in for some difficult tests of endurance for Comic Relief - sitting in baths of baked beans, or running or miles or whatever, but I think putting up with my family for three days beats all that.

"My mum keeps going on about the house being in a tip, and having to sort things out for Hannah, but the idea is that nothing will be any different, it'll just be Hannah there instead of me."

Hannah, 14, of Bacup Road, Waterfoot, and Kirsty are both pupils at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School, Waterfoot.

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