Former Monte Carlo winner and top British rallying star of the 1960s, Paddy Hopkirk MBE, is to be the guest speaker at a charity function in the Empress Hotel on Friday, March 31.

He famously won the 1964 Monte in a Cooper S.

The function is a fundraiser for Prostate Cancer Research and will include a hot pot supper and additional entertainment by local performers Stephanie Gray and Ben Heath.

Tickets, priced £20 each, are available from John Brown (mob 482840) or Olga Gray MBE (423356).