MARTIAL arts experts shed their shoes in a fundraising effort for Pendleside Hospice.

Maxine Bolton and Michael Edmondson, front, are pictured presenting a cheque for £758 to Muriel Jobling (chairman of the Hospice) watched by other members of the Go Shin Kempo JuJitsu Club, Burnley, who raised the money by a sponsored barefoot walk over Pendle Hill carrying a telephone pole.