A NEW hospice shop in Saltburn is proving to be a great success just two weeks after it opened.

The shop in Milton Street is the first to be set up by the Edward Guy Foundation.

Glenis Guy, founder and chairman, said the charity would need around £1,000 a week to fund its day care centre at Teesside Hospice, due to be fully operational by November. The £700,000 scheme is being paid for partly by the National Lottery Charities Board.

Mrs Guy said: "It has been absolutely brilliant, we have been unbelievably busy.