A campaign has resulted in more than 6,000 pairs of spectacles being collected for use in the developing world.

Chester-le-Street Rotary Club has collected 6,322 pairs of spectacles in the past nine months and is preparing to send them to the developing world through the charity Sight Savers International.

President Ron Trotter distributed notices asking people to take unwanted spectacles to Chester-le-Street opticians Boothroyd and Jones and The Optometrics Centre.

They will be taken to the Bethany Christian Centre in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, and forwarded to Sight Savers International.

Before they reach their final destination, the glasses will be taken to prisons, where inmates will grade the lenses into different strengths.

Mr Trotter, who is also a Chester-le-Street district councillor, said they had collected about 20,000 pairs of spectacles over the past four years.