STAFF and students at Café VI at Middlesbrough’s Beverley School are celebrating after achieving a top healthy eating award.

A foodbank is the latest in a long line of good causes to sign up to a local lottery.

Middlesbrough Foodbank has signed up to the Middlesbrough Lottery - a weekly lottery which supports good causes, charities, community groups and sports groups based in the town.

Almost 50 causes, charities, community groups and sports clubs based in Middlesbrough have now signed up to the Middlesbrough Lottery, which is due to celebrate its six-month anniversary in early March.

A FORMER patient who made a miraculous survival following brain surgery is completing a host of gruelling challenges on the tenth anniversary of his injury — as a big thank you to the hospital teams who saved his life.

BIG-hearted fundraisers from Middlesbrough's fostering community are hitting the road in a good cause at the weekend.