SHAKERS legend Terry McDermott has returned to Gigg Lane to boost their desperate fund raising drive.

The former Newcastle and Liverpool star has donated one of his England jerseys from 1983 to the Save Our Shakers appeal, which must raise £400,000 by April 26 or the club's 117-year existence will come to an end.

McDermott has also bought and signed a new Bury shirt to go with it in the latest memorabilia auction on the club website.

And he has even persuaded close friend and former England skipper Alan Shearer to sign and donate the shirt he wore in Newcastle's 6-2 Good Friday thrashing of Everton - complete with grass stains from St James' Park!

Bury's link to McDermott runs back over 30 years to his time as a Gigg Lane apprentice. He turned professional in 1969 and spent three seasons in the first team squad before moving to Newcastle and later to Anfield, where he won four league titles and three European Cups.

It is hoped these latest donations raise as much cash as the mass of other top prizes to go under the hammer so far but the bar has been set high. The bidding for former Manchester United ace Arnold Muhren's 1983 FA Cup-winning jersey topped £700.

Tottenham Hotspur striker Teddy Sheringham has also dug deep to help the cash-strapped Shakers, donating the track suit he wore for Manchester United's 1999 FA Cup final triumph.