BANK staff held their first charity dinner dance to help raise cash for two hospices.

More than 100 staff from 13 NatWest branches around East Lancashire and Preston attended the dinner at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors. Mikki Greenbank, of the Blackburn branch, helped organise the event which raised £700.

The cash has been split between the East Lancashire Hospice's £1.3million appeal for better day care facilities and Derian House children's hospice, Chorley.

Mikki and NatWest branch manager Graham Cooper are pictured presenting a cheque to East Lancashire Hospice fund-raiser Stuart Andrew and appeal organiser Stan Whyte.