FIVE women who inspired a hit movie and raised more than £3m for charity have crowned the winner of a fundraising baking contest.

Calendar Girls Angela Baker, Beryl Bamforth, Tricia Stewart, Lynda Logan and Chris Clancy visited Booths supermarket in Ripon to congratulate on Elizabeth Harper, who works at the store, for developing the winning entry, sticky toffee buns.

Mrs Baker’s husband, John, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1998 and died after just a few months of treatment.

In the months following their loss, the North Yorkshire Women's Insitute members set about creating a naked calendar to raise funds for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.

They launched the Great Booths Bake Off winning buns, ten per cent of the proceeds of which will go to the charity, and raised £574 for the blood cancer charity at the event.

Mrs Harper, who lost her 18-year-old brother to leukaemia, said: “When I heard about the Bake Off competition for Booths employees, I thought it would be an ideal opportunity to raise funds for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.

"When I baked my first batch of sticky toffee buns, I didn’t expect for a minute I’d be seeing them on the shelves at Booths, but I hope that the proceeds will help to fund valuable research into this disease that affects so many families.”