Sleeping beauty characters brightened up a children’s ward.

The cast of Millfield Theatre’s 2014 pantomime visited the Rainbow Ward at North Middlesex Children’s Hospital.

The firm favourites were Princess Aurora, Fairy Bowbells and Nurse Nelly – but the children were wary about Carabosse, the “baddie” in the film.

Billie Ann Plumb, the play specialist on the ward, said: “The kids had so much fun and they didn’t stop talking about meeting the cast after the visit.”