A SHOOTING party held at the Waie Inn, Zeal Monachorum, recently raised more than £10,000 for Exeter-based cancer charity FORCE.

More than 180 supporters of game shooting contributed to the total. The event was in memory of the Yeoford-based organiser?s husband who died last year after a heroic battle with cancer.

Merile Fishwick, of FORCE, said: ?We are absolutely overwhelmed by this huge sum of money which will go towards the purchase of several chemotherapy infusion pumps for the oncology ward at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

The charity which covers North and East Devon has been running for 17 years.