YOUNG cystic fibrosis sufferers will benefit from Saturday's Calmore Show.

Money raised at the event on the recreation ground off Calmore Drive, Totton, will go to the Victoria Foundation.

It was set up in memory of Victoria Wilson-Smith who died on November 9 last year at the age of 19 after a lifelong battle with the lung disease.

Her parents, Lynda and Richard, and brother David were at the showground near Calmore Junior School to publicise the charity, which wants to provide better facilities for sufferers at home and at Southampton General Hospital.

Despite some worrying-looking clouds, the rain stayed away.

But it was those same clouds that led to the wheeled and walking fancy dress parade not taking place.

Organiser Geoff Bunday said: "People stayed away for some reason. Maybe they didn't like the weather. Many of them would have been in wheelchairs."

Carnival princess Rachel Hunt and attendants Rebekah Davis and Lisa Holman enjoyed themselves as they carried out their official functions. Carnival queen Marie Smith was unavailable as she was abroad on an Air Training Corps exercise. A coconut shy, the Fabulous Faces face-painting team and a bouncy castle ensured there was plenty to do.

The Oak Lodge Association, which supports Oak Lodge special needs school in Dibden Purlieu, was running a tombola and pick-a-card competition.

The 7th New Forest North Calmore Scouts ran games while the recruiting team from the 47th Regiment Royal Artillery brought along an HMV Stormer armed with eight missiles all the way from their base at Thorney Island, near Emsworth.

Children enjoyed a mini rollercoaster ride and Mad Hatter swings.

Bullet-train rides and an archery booth were also successes. St John Ambulance volunteers staged an accident display before attending to a few minor casualties during the afternoon.

Samantha Ward won the beautiful baby contest in the under-six-month class while Philippa Vardy and Josephine Cheyne were first and second in the six-months-to-one-year section.