MEDICAL staff from North Yorkshire will be working overtime for good causes when they take part in this year's Race For Life.

Staff from Selby and York Primary Care Trust, York Health Services Trust, and North, East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire Strategic Health Authority will be taking part in the Cancer Research UK event at York Racecourse on May 11.

There will be 26 staff from the Primary Care Trust. The trust's run organiser, Mel Bell, said: "It is something we do every year now, 12 of us took part last year, but now there will be 26 of us running, walking or staggering our way round.

"We decided it was something we all wanted to do, we just want to raise as much money as we can, and keep this effort going."

Trainee cytologist Helen Elliott, the York Health Services Trust race organiser, said: "Several of us took part last year, and this year we have managed to get 15 of us together from the cytology department, including two runners' daughters.

"We do screening here, and this is very important to us.

"We have had T-shirts made up saying 'Cytology Sisters - Cervix with a smile' - that should get us noticed."

Updated: 09:09 Saturday, May 03, 2003