It really was a great bake-off day in Huddersfield.

Dozens of groups across the town got involved with the annual appeal run by Macmillan to host coffee mornings.

And there was an endless variety of cakes and buns on show as people in Huddersfield raised thousands of pounds for the cancer charity.

Youngsters at Castle Hill School in Newsome held a fun-packed event, with all manner of strange delicacies on offer in their own cafe.

Some of the school’s older students served behind the cafe counter.

Netherton woman Jeanette Battye hosted a coffee morning at her Merlin Court home to say “Thanks” for Macmillan staff who treated her mother for cancer.

“Without the nurses’ support she would not have coped with breast cancer. Their kind words made it much easier to cope”, said Mrs Battye.

Volunteers at the Beaumont Park Visitor Centre put on an excellent display of buns and cakes in their three-hour event.

Youngsters at Almondbury Community School donned their aprons to raise charity cash.

The coffee morning was at the KS3 and 4 Centre in Fernside Avenue. It was organised by Year 11 prefects along with the head of science, Dr Lesley Wilkes. The cakes and buns were made by pupils in the Let’s Get Cooking Club.

Huddersfield Town Ambassador Andy Booth popped into a local firm for coffee and a cake.

He was one of the guests at the coffee morning run by the recruitment firm Staffkex at their Chapel Hill headquarters. The event also included a raffle.

Paddock School pulled out all the stops to raise money.

They baked cakes and buns, staged a euphonium performance by James Earnshaw and offered free haloumi cheese thanks to Linthwaite-based Yorkshire Dama Cheese.

Chocoate cupcakes, lemon drizzle cakes and Victoria sponges went like proverbial hotcakes in the best-ever Macmillan fundraiser at Calderdale Royal Hospital.

Takings from sales donations and raffles topped £1,700, the highest ever raised. ISS supplied coffee and cakes and local bakery 3Tier Cakes donated cupcakes.

Owen Williams, Trust chief execvutive, said: “Everyone says the care here is special”.

Staff at the revamped Lloyds Bank in Westgate, Huddersfield, celebrated the opening opf their newly-refurbished offices by hosting a coffee morning.

They served drinks and cakes to customers and staff and raised hundreds of pounds.

Members of The Top Club in Deighton enjoyed coffee and cakes thanks to volunteers from the Fresh Horizons project, who staged a coffee morning.

Advertising and editorial staff at The Examiner’s Bradley offices raised more than £150 with cakes, buns, coffee and bacon butties.

Staff working for hardware firm Jewson in Huddersfield joined colleagues from other depots in taking part in the Macmlllan event. In all the firm raised over £14,000.