CANCER patients in North-allerton have been given a £10,000 boost.

The Mowbray Suite at the town's Friarage Hospital has been presented with new equipment by volunteers who run the hospital shop and the trolley service. The four new infusion pumps are used in chemotherapy treatments and for blood transfusions.

Valerie Todd and Joan Leyland, of the hospital shop, presented the pumps to patient Rita Allan, and Sue Whitehead, Jane Michie and Catherine Pooley, of the Mowbray Suite.