Devonshire Pub fundraiser for cancer charity

Kind-hearted owner, Gino Forte said: "I intended to raise some money for a good cause. We have decided to give the money from the raffle to Cancer Research UK as one in three people will get cancer or will know someone who has this disease."

The draw will be taking place on January 31 at The Devonshire Pub, Devonshire Square. Tickets are 2.

Cancer Research UK are also looking for teams to join their forthcoming Relay For Life in September. Teams of eight to fifteen can walk, run or crawl around the sports track at William Parker School, Hastings to raise much needed funds to find new ways to beat cancer.

Teams are asked to fundraise throughout the year and are brought together for the overnight event on September 12-13, which celebrates the lives of cancer survivors and commemorates those who have died from the disease.

The charity funds over 4, 250 scientists, doctors and nurses across the UK. Locally, there are three trials in Hastings that are finding new treatments for childhood actuate leukaemia, a vaccine for pancreatic cancer and the prevention for cancer of the windpipe.

For more information visit http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/relay or ask for Rod at the Cancer Research UK shop, Devonshire Road.