SHUTTLE/TIMES AND NEWS readers with leftover currency from foreign holidays have given Kidderminster's Kemp Hospice a cash booster.
The unwanted coins and notes - from more than a dozen countries - has been converted into nearly £200.
The idea was the brainchild of one of Wyre Forest's MEPs, Conservative Philip Bushill-Matthews, who realised the foreign cash will become obsolete when the Euro is introduced next year.
Readers were quick to make their way to the Shuttle/Times & News office in Blackwell Street, Kidderminster, and dropped in coins and notes from such faraway places as Turkey, South Africa, America and Eastern Europe.
John Fletcher, manager of the hospice's campaign to build a new £2.25 million centre, said: "It was a great idea and we are so grateful to everyone who responded.
"It just goes to show how little amounts of money can add up to a sizeable sum very quickly."
The appeal for foreign currency will remain open until the New Year.
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