NURSING home staff who won their company's monthly raffle are handing the £500 prize to charity.

Employees at the Westminster Home, High Grange Avenue, Billingham, have chosen the Huntingdon's Disease Association and Breast Cancer Care to receive £250 each.

The raffle takes place among the Westminster Group's 100 care homes throughout the country.

Kath Armstrong, regional support worker at the home, said: "We have some clients here at the home who suffer from Huntingdon's disease and we know that the Huntingdon's Disease Association does a great deal to help and support their families, as does Breast Cancer Care.