PATIENTS and visitors to a Teesside hospital witnessed a charity fundraising event at the weekend.

More than 100 volunteers abseiled 80 feet down the university Hospital of North Tees, in Stockton, to raise funds for the Royal National Institute for the Blind.

One of the abseilers was blind, and organisers say they hoped the event would raise about £15,000 for the work of the charity on Teesside.