Staff from Happy Jays Nursery in York posed naked behind strategicallyplaced children's toys for photos to go on a 2008 calendar, in the styleof the film 'Calendar Girls'.
Proceeds from the calendar sales will go to the Yorkshire Evening PressGuardian Angels appeal, which aims to raise 300,000 for a newhigh dependency unit at York Hospital children's ward.
Natalie Strickson, a nursery nurse at Happy Jays, suffered frompulmonary atresia and died suddenly in 2005 aged just 20.
Nursery manager Gemma Cobb said, 'Natalie's death was a complete shockto everyone. She was a very popular and well-loved member of staff.'
The calendar images were taken by local photographer Sue Gill, whooffered her services for free.
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