A NEW bowel cancer support group is to benefit from a donation from fundraisers at Sedgefield's Inner Wheel and Rotary Club.

Members presented a cheque for £867 to the colo-rectal unit at the University Hospital of North Tees, in Stockton.

They were inspired to raise the cash after one if its members, Melvyn Carr, developed bowel cancer and started treatment at the hospital.

A club race night raised £1,730 which was divided between Stockton's hospital and Cancer Research in Newcastle.