World Book Day: See how children in the Hastings area dressed up to celebrate

It resulted in a dazzling array of costumes portraying everything from superheroes and wizards to fairy take characters.

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World Book Day is a charity event held annually in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the first Thursday in March.

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On World Book Day, every child in full-time education in the UK is given a voucher to be spent on books; the event was first celebrated in the United Kingdom in 1995.

You can find out more by visiting www.worldbookday.com.

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