Children who are boycotting red noses this Comic Relief Day say they are absolutely buzzing to have received a letter from Sir David Attenborough.

The pupils at Fourlanesend Primary School on the Rame Peninsula wrote to the Comic Relief charity asking them to reconsider selling the foam plastic noses, and copied in the veteran broadcaster, who has become almost synonymous with the campaign against ocean pollution following his Blue Planet series.

The charity’s reply to the school council did not fully address the issue, says headteacher Rebecca Norton.

It said that its noses were not necessarily single-use plastic, as they could be kept for future use, and that the charity was ’working with its partners to review materials used in merchandise to explore solutions and alternatives for future years’.

But the youngsters were delighted to hear that Sir David Attenborough agreed with their point of view.

In his letter, Sir David writes: ’I think you are perfectly correct to raise the question of replacing plastic wherever we can and I hope you get an adequate answer from Comic Relief.’

Children at the school have invented plenty of alternative, non-plastic noses for Comic Relief Day, which is on Friday March 15.

They will still be donating money to the Comic Relief charity.

And those without materials to upcycle will be painting their noses red, instead.