Lottery lovers can get a new fix of their favourite pastime and raise some cash for a new cancer hospice in Bradford.

The Marie Cure Cancer Care's Bradford Lottery is only the charity's second fund-raising draw in the country, following on from one in Liverpool.

It aims to raise £250,000 a year to help pay for the £5.2 million Marie Curie Centre which is being built in the grounds of the Leeds Road Hospital.

To play people have to enrol with the charity giving their name, age and address.

They are then given a unique five-digit game number which is programmed into a central computer.

Every Friday the computer randomly selects a winner for the £1,000 first prize and a further 40 players are also chosen for £5 runners-up prizes.

More than 400 people have already signed up to play the lottery which costs £1 a go with a minimum of 65 per cent of the ticket price guaranteed to go to the charity.

Former National Lottery worker Angela Phillis, 46, from Silsden, is in charge of the competition.

She said: "My mother Jane Vincent died when she was only 58 from throat cancer and as I already had four years experience as a regional manager for the National Lottery I jumped at the chance of this job.

"We've only been running for less than two months but the membership is steadily increasing.

"The major difference between us and the other lotteries is that you have the same set of numbers week in, week out. By law we cannot take more than 35 per cent of the ticket price to cover administration costs so the bulk of the money raised goes towards the new centre."

Mrs Phillis said the charity's aim was to raise £250,000 a year once the draw was up and running.

For an application form call Angela Vincent on 01274 394245.

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