KEEP your eyes peeled for teddy bears of all shapes, sizes and colours hiding in shop windows in Salisbury.

Throughout this month children are invited to take part in the bear hunt and support Save the Children.

Entry forms are available from Salisbury Library and Salisbury Information Centre in Fish Row.

The fun finishes with a Teddy Bears’ Picnic on Bank Holiday Monday, August 29, on Choristers’ Green in the Cathedral Close between 2pm and 5pm.

Families can bring their own picnics and teddies and there will be prizes for the best-dressed, the smartest and the funniest bears.

There will be bear story books for the first 200 children who bring their completed forms along to Choristers’ Green with a donation for Save the Children.

Visitors can also enjoy crafts, games, face painting and storytelling.

Anita Campbell, author of The Story of Little Brown Bear will be among those reading.

Su Lycett, who runs the Salisbury branch of Save the Children, said: “We are raising money to fund the training of midwives as each year one million babies die at birth across the world.

“Just £95 will help train a midwife and £15 will buy her a delivery kit.

“This is such an important issue and we are really grateful to all the shops who have agreed to have a bear in their window, to Reeve the Baker who are donating teddy bear biscuits for the Bank Holiday picnic, and all our helpers.”