PANTOMIME stars were released early from their magic lamps to launch an auction to benefit sick children.

Jenny Douglas, left, Gavin Mitchell, centre, and Karen Dunbar, the stars of this season's staging of Aladdin at the Kings Theatre in Glasgow, helped to raise some cheer at the event at Mulberry Bank Auction House, in Glasgow's West End.

The sale raised money for the Yorkhill Children's Hospital.

Aladdin will run from December 6 until January 12 2014.

Picture: Martin Shields