HOSPITAL staff are limbering up for this year's charity Race for Life, in Darlington.

The team of nurses from the town's Woodlands Hospital will be among thousands of women taking part in the popular fund-raiser in aid of Cancer Research UK.

The 5km race is staged in South Park on Sunday, June 20, with organisers hopeful of topping last year's total of £69,000 raised.

Joyce French, from the hospital, said: "Everybody here can sympathise because it is about women's cancers. We are hoping to raise as much as we possibly can."

All entrants get a sponsorship form and a training programme to help them get fit. To enter, go to www.raceforlife.org or call (0870) 513 4314