Children in Need raises record on-the-night total
Children in Need raises highest ever total
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Saturday, 19, Nov 2011 08:34
By Phil Norris
A record-breaking on-the-night total of more than £26 million has been raised by the BBC's annual Children in Need show.
At the end of the marathon six-hour broadcast at 02:00 GMT this morning (November 19th), host Terry Wogan announced £26,332,334 had been raised for charity, surpassing last year's total by £8 million.
"That is the greatest single total we have ever made in one night," Wogan said at the end of the programme.
"Thank you to the British people in these tough times to come up with that kind of money on behalf of Britain's children."
Highlights of the show included appearances from Westlife and Susan Boyle, while X Factor favourites One Direction opened the night with a performance of their hit single What Makes You Beautiful.
Matt Baker, presenter of The One Show, raised more than £1.2 million by riding the 500 miles from Edinburgh to London on a rickshaw - a task that saw him cycling for up to ten hours a day.
The BBC held its first ever broadcast appeal for children on Christmas Day in 1927, raising £1,143 18s 3d for four charities.