Slough MP donates £14k to charity after tweet

Slough MP Fiona Mactaggart, who once spent Red Nose Day dressed as a chicken when she was a teacher, has donated £14,268 to charity after thousands of people retweeted her post on social networking site Twitter.

Although she had always planned to write a cheque for Comic Relief, the Labour MP said she had the sum of £10,000 in mind, and admitted she was "a bit" worried as the number of retweets steadily increased.

Ms Mactaggart said the cheque has already been handed over to Comic Relief.

This year's Red Nose Day has raised more than £75 million so far.