COFFEE mornings throughout Teesside raised money for Macmillan nurses.
About 1.5 million people took part in the world's biggest coffee morning across the UK yesterday.
Gill Owens, whose father and first husband died from cancer, attended a coffee morning at The Business Shop in Redcar, along with Macmillan nurse Jill Hendry, who nursed both men and herself has a brain tumour.
Mrs Owens said: "The nurses do a wonderful job and if I won the lottery I would give them everything. Of course, they don't just look after terminally ill people. They also take care of the survivors."
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Labour MP Ashok Kumar, who took part in a coffee morning at Yorkshire Bank, in Guisborough, said: "The work of the Macmillan organisation goes beyond nursing.
"Coffee mornings raise money for specialist medical staff, new buildings for treatment and care and for giving financial support to patients."
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