A COUPLE who staged dance sessions to raise cash for charities have handed £500 to Sidmouth Victoria Hospital Comforts Fund.

John and Sonia Davies hold weekly classes on Wednesdays at the town’s Conservative club – and boost good causes with the proceeds.

The comforts fund, formed in 1989, has raised millions of pounds to help in effectively providing a new hospital within the existing shell.

Chairman, Graham Vincent, said: “Practically all the money for these improvements has been generated in the local community and the comforts fund is very grateful for donations like this one.”