IT was not exactly music to everybody's ears, but drivers at Grimley Raceway smashed up two pianos to help raise money for the Find Madeleine McCann fund.

Two teams of four took sledgehammers to the pianos in a race to get pieces small enough to fit through a square. While the race went on, a bucket collection in the crowd raised £124 - Grimley Raceway's organisers then upped the fund to £150.

Promoter Alan Lewis said that he pleased with the amount raised, considering the bad weather, and also the fact they had never done anything like smashing pianos before. He said: "We had a couple of pianos donated by a company in Evesham - Iron Horse Commercial Services - and we decided that what we would do is smash these pianos up for the Find Madeleine McCann appeal."

Before the smashing took place, the pianos played one last tune as they were strapped to the back of a truck and paraded around the oval tarmac circuit the A443 Worcester to Tenbury Wells Road, near Worcester.

Madeleine McCann was snatched more than three weeks ago from her family's holiday apartment in the resort of Praia da Luz on Portugal's Algarve.

A Europe-wide search has been launched to try to find the missing youngster.