Sisters Tracey and Lizzie McQueen are putting on a show with a difference to help give a dying woman the gift of life.

The pair are going to perform a raunchy strip show in front of a pub audience.

The money they raise will help to send cancer-stricken Maureen Carey to America for potentially life-saving treatment.

Wellwishers need to raise £30,000 so 44-year-old Ms Carey can have sessions on a linear accelerator machine, at a clinic on New York's Statton Island.

Big-hearted Tracey, 26, and Lizzie, 27, have become sisters of mercy by agreeing to perform for free at the Dickens Inn, Middlesbrough, next month.

The twosome can normally command hundreds of pounds to reveal their charms on the North-East strip circuit.

But every penny from the floor show will go towards the appeal to send Ms Carey to the US, where doctors claim an amazing 95 per cent success rate for their revolutionary treatment.

Tracey said: "We have never taken our clothes off for a better cause."

Lizzie said: "If we can help Maureen to live by doing what we do best, that's great. When we heard of her plight we were very touched and we are only too happy to give our support."

Maureen's friend and fund organiser, Olwyn McPhillips, 45, said: "What the girls are doing is wonderful and very much appreciated. Their contribution is every bit as important as other activities we are planning towards our target.

"The treatment Maureen needs is not available in this country and her only chance is to go to America.

"We need to raise £22,000 for the treatment and another £8,000 for air fares and accommodation.

"In the first three weeks of fundraising, we managed to hit £3,000 but there's a lot of hard work ahead.

"I'm sure the strip show will be great fun and should help the fund considerably."