Ref. 14876/2MORE than 200 hungry customers came through the doors of Westbury Labour Club on Saturday to raise £600 for Cancer Research UK.

The Big Breakfast event was one of hundreds taking place up and down the country in support of the charity and the Westbury organisers were delighted with the response they received.

Volunteers served up cooked breakfasts and brunches between 9am and 2pm and for a fiver customers could opt for the full service of sausage, bacon, eggs, mushrooms and beans with toast and coffee or tea.

But the slightly less hungry could choose a scaled down version to suit their appetite.

Cancer Research UK (Westbury) chairman Sheila Carruthers said: "We must have had a good 200 people on the day. We had a little shower in the morning, but that didn't seem to dampen people's spirits.

"Everybody pulled their weight so it was quite a well organised event. This is our fifth year and every year we have done it we have learnt a bit more because none of us are professional caterers.

"We in Westbury have been most grateful to the Labour club for letting us use all their facilities."

The Big Breakfast was the second fundraising venture the volunteers have put together in the last month.

At the end of February they collected £1,053 by running a charity shop in Warminster Road for three days.