A COUPLE celebrating their golden wedding have donated £250 to a charity that helps raise awareness of heart defects in young people.

Alan and Edith Bury from Darwen asked for donations to CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) instead of the usual gifts to celebrate their anniversary.

Irene Wickers, from CRY, said: "It's fantastic that they decided to do this for us. It's good to know that they were thinking of us."

Irene and husband Bill set the charity up after the death of their 31-year-old son, Neil, who died after a visit to a Blackburn gym in 1996.

The Wickers joined forces with Susan and Granville Staff, whose 17-year-old son, David, died after competing in a 10km race in December 1994.

Together, the families have raised more than £31,000 over the past four years to buy life-saving equipment to detect heart defects in young people.