THREE North-East men are hoping to set a world record this weekend by scoring one million and one points in a 40-hour darts marathon.

Tony Mitchell, Glenn Moody and Andy Cree all play for Marske Workingmen's Club in the Cleveland Superleague, and hit upon the idea of doing something for cancer charities following the death of Glenn's sister last year.

The record-breaking attempt will see two of the three men throwing for an hour at a time to score a million and one in the shortest time possible.

They reckon the marathon - which starts at 6pm tomorrow at the Yorkshire Coble pub in Redcar - will not be over until Sunday lunchtime.

The three hope to attract as much support as possible and new Redcar MP Vera Baird has promised she will be there at the end to give her encouragement.

The trio is hoping to raise more than £4,000 for Teesside Hospice and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

Mr Mitchell said: "We are looking forward to it in a perverse kind of way. It is going to be hard but we are all quite charitable guys.

"We all work shifts so we are hoping that is going to help us keep awake."