NORTH Durham MP Kevan Jones will be visiting a former pit village in his constituency to help raise funds.

Mr Jones will call at Craghead Village Hall, on Friday, from 10am, to take part in a coffee morning as part of Macmillan Cancer Relief's World's Biggest Coffee Morning.

Mr Jones said: "At some point in their lives, most people are affected in some way by cancer. Macmillan Cancer Relief gives them a helping hand to turn to.