A BUSY team of around 20 volunteers was needed to count all the coins collected in this year's Bridport carnival.

The team emptied scores of buckets filled by generous visitors to carnival events.

Over 107,500 British coins were included in the haul with over 150 foreign ones in the mix.

The total collected came to £3,224 and 19p.

Cash collected included:

5 x £5

26 x £2

526 x £1

448 x 50p

2,100 x 20p

2,715 x 10p

6,902 x 5p

41,509 x 2p

53,014 x 1p