DRIVING instructors from Bury signalled their good intentions by helping to raise more than £20,000 to provide guide dogs for the blind.

And along the way, the ten-strong team from Bury's BSM driving school had a chance to make a few dreams come true.

Bury instructor Graham Walton and colleagues took part in a sponsored "Blind Drive" event at Bolton's Reebok Stadium.

It was a one-off chance for more than 100 blind and partially-sighted people to fulfil a lifetime ambition by driving one of the firm's dual-controlled vehicles.

And staff had a chance to meet three of the dogs that money raised from the event will help train. Beauty, Sammy and Maisie, BSM for short, from Bolton's Guide Dogs Training Centre, were all taken along to the firm's offices in The Rock to meet instructors.

Mr Walton, pictured with the three dogs, said: "Being part of helping blind and partially-sighted people to achieve a dream really was a privilege.

"It was nice for the instructors to get the chance to see the dogs and to know that what they did has gone some way to helping blind people."