CHORISTERS at a Kidderminster church are hoping to last the pace through a marathon musical effort for a charity that helps cancer sufferers.

Fund-raising vocalists from St Ambrose Church are filling their lungs in preparation for Saturday's challenge of singing the first and last verses of 50 hymns.

Fourteen choristers are set to sing for about two hours from, 7.30pm, to boost the coffers of the Anthony Nolan Trust.

The charity, formed in 1974, helps people with leukaemia find suitable bone marrow transplants through a donor register.

Margaret Tillott, organist and choir leader, said all the members, aged between 11 and 80, were looking forward to the big sing.

She explained: "We received a letter asking if we wanted to take part and it has just gone from there because it is such a good cause.

"It promises to be quite an adventure to get through all the songs but we get together regularly and everyone seems up to the task. We are booked in for a balti after to have a bit of a celebration when we finish."

Stuart Lees, the charity's appeals manager for the West Midlands, said: "All the money raised will make a difference and help some of the 7,000 people in the country still waiting for a transplant."

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