IT was pancake delight for more than 100 pupils from Eastleigh's Norwood and Crescent Primary Schools as they put on a Shrove Tuesday spectacle for shoppers in the town centre.

Eastleigh Baptist Church organised the event which saw young runners dash along the Leigh Road pedestrian precinct with frying pans in heats of ten before flipping their pancakes at the half-way stage and then dashing for the finishing line cheered on by their classmates.

But perhaps the biggest cheer of the day was reserved for the final heat when teachers from the two schools lined up to a cacophony of shouts of encouragement and chanting.

After the races it was back to the church for a pancake feast and an assembly explaining the significance of Shrove Tuesday.