YOUNGSTERS who let their hair down at a country and western evening have raised £325 for a cancer charity.
The Devizes Leos, the junior branch of Devizes Lions Club, has been going for five years and meets regularly at Devizes School.
Like their senior counterparts the Leos take fundraising seriously and were pleased to raise cash for Cancer Research UK with their evening of country and western music.
Charlie Owen president of the Leos and other members handed over a cheque to Alice Cleland from Cancer Research UK who was joined at the presentation by Sue Tovey chairman of the Devizes fundraising committee of the charity.
She thanked the Leos for their hard work and fundraising for the charity which works to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.
A spokesman said: "Over the last 40 years, cancer survival rates in the UK have doubled. In the 1970s just a quarter of people survived. Today that figure is half."
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