Mind thigh gap? Tube riders strip off

HUNDREDS stripped off their trousers to take a half-naked trip on the London Underground yesterday.

Crowds met outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square for the 10th annual No Trousers Tube Ride before heading underground where they boarded trains on Tube lines across the capital.

More than 100 people piled on to the Piccadilly Line, where they struggled to remove their trousers due to the large crowds.

Regular passengers were left bewildered as men and women sat in their brightlycoloured underwear talking or reading, or taking pictures of each other.

Other groups set off for London landmarks, including one heading to Parliament.

Sisters Tessa and Matilda Deterding said they had come for the first time because they liked the idea behind it.

Tessa, 24, from London, said: “I like the sentiment behind it, instead of a stiff upper lip it’s having a laugh.”