MORE than 75 Rotarians gathered at a musical event in memory of a fellow member who died recently.

The members of the Rotary Club of Teesside West attended the Last Night of the Proms event at Castle Howard, near York, in memory of Helen Hamilton.

Andrew Hamilton, husband of the former headteacher of Darlington's Polam Hall School for Girls invited them to attend.

He said he had been unable to organise the traditional Rotary Club President's Night on his retirement as president because of his wife's illness.

Mrs Hamilton's funeral was on the day in May when the event would have been held.

Mr Hamilton said: "Obviously it wasn't appropriate to have a dinner- dance this year, and the idea was to have a visit to the concert in her memory."

New president Barry Tate said: "It was very sad, but there were more than 75 members of our club and fellow Rotarians from Thornaby there, which was very nice."

The Rotarians have raised more than £2,200 for the Breakthrough Breast Cancer research charity since Mrs Hamilton's death.

Mrs Hamilton, who was 57, had been a teacher at Polam Hall School for 20 years, and served as headteacher there for 16 years.