Four women from Hanley Swan are continuing with plans to climb a mountain in Morocco despite last weekend's terrorist attacks in Casablanca.

Caroline Sutton, Chrissie Bemand, Hilary Fowler and Anna Streather are already in training for the attempt on the 4,167-metre peak of Mount Toubkal at the end of October.

Each needs to raise at least £1,000 in sponsorship for Acorns Hospice Trust. The money will go to an appeal to build a new hospice in Worcester for terminally-ill children.

Similar expeditions have been affected because of recent world events. However, Caroline, the former proprietor of Hanley Swan Village Stores, said the group would have to wait and see what happened.

She said she had never done any- thing like it, although the enormity of the challenge was not something she had been dwelling on.

"We're busy training at the moment," she said. "There's a reasonably rigorous training programme."

Anna, deputy head at Upton CE Primary School, said she became involved after a playground conversation with Chrissie, who has children at the school.

"The more she told me about it, the more I thought 'what a wonderful idea'," she said.

The school is supporting the women, holding a fundraising non-school uniform day today (Friday) and more events later in the term. Other events are scheduled over the summer.

Mount Toubkal is the highest peak in the Atlas Mountain, which run for 1,500 miles from Tunisia to Morocco.

Anyone wanting to sponsor the women, should call 01684 311665.