PINK SEA DIP TO RASIE FUNDS: Cancer Research UK, in Redcar, is hosting a Party in Pink to raise money for the All Women Together campaign.

Staff at the shop, in High Street, will serve tea, biscuits, cakes and hold a tombola on Saturday, October 29. At 2pm, a group dressed in pink will do a sponsored Pink Dip in the sea. For details, call (01642) 471183 or (01642) 487230.

CHARITY WALKER: Pensioner Maureen Gordon, who walked 237 miles in 26 days in aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research, has raised £1,100. The 70-year-old lives at Sir William Turner's Almshouses, Kirkleatham, near Redcar.

CURTAIN RAISER: Twenty-five year 11 students are to present Arthur Miller's play The Crucible at the Laurence Jackson School, Guisborough, from November 16 to November 18. Tickets, priced £5, are available from the reception desk at the school.

CHARITY BOOST: Dormanstown Library, near Redcar, raised £1,640 at its Macmillan Cancer Relief coffee morning, almost doubling last year's total.