Meadowhall strummers drum up cash for cancer research

The Sing For Life event will raise cash for Cancer Research UK and has been organised by Wakefield musician Jonny Firth who lost both his father and grandfather to the disease.

Mr Firth has signed up singers and bands from across Yorkshire to take part and the charity said it was extremely grateful to him and centre staff for making the event a possibility.

Andrea Membe, from Cancer Research UK, said: "What Jonny and the rest of the team are doing here will provide us with some invaluable money for the charity.

"We are the largest single funder of cancer research in the country and we are making fantastic progress, but we can't do it without people like Jonny and the support of Meadowhall."

Mr Firth said: "I have spoken to all my musician friends about doing something for the charity and everybody has been very supportive, having been touched by the disease in some way themselves.

"I have also been overwhelmed by the support I have received from Meadowhall and the team at Cancer Research UK. Without their support I would not have been able to bring this idea to life."