SOME 1,000 red balloons will be released into the skies on Valentine's Day to launch Testway housing's new fundraising initiative, Transform.

The new fundraising arm of Testway Housing is due to be launched on 14 February, with a spectacular charity balloon race at the Museum of Army Flying, Middle Wallop.

And members of Testway staff will be selling balloons in Andover town on Thursday 3 February, when market day shoppers will be able to chat with the team and find out more about the charity.

To fit in with Valentine's Day, the theme is romance. As this year is the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Testway plans to recreate the great screen romance between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman inthe film classic Casablanca.