Coffee and cake lovers across mid Norfolk had a 'marvellous' time at schools, caf�s, pubs and gardens for the Macmillan Cancer coffee morning today (Friday).

At Little Snoring Primary School, near Fakenham, children, parents and grandparents enjoyed homemade cakes and a raffle.

Organiser Yvonne King, 25, from Little Snoring, said: 'It is really nice. There are people talking to people who would not normally talk to each other. The kids are really enjoying themselves.'

She added: 'Cancer is a really awful disease and it does affect a lot of people.'

Jill Drewry, 77, who opened up her Briston house for the fourth year in a row, raised just over �1,163 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

She said: 'I'm exhausted and thrilled to bits. The girls who helped me have been marvellous.'

At Caf� Verde on the South Green Park Enterprise Centre, Mattishall, a coffee morning organised by teaching assistant Lynn Reeson attracted 150 people.

Her mother, Olive Jermy, from Watton, died of breast cancer 15 years ago aged just 58.

The Mattishall coffee morning has so far raised �750.

Homemade scones and cakes were sold at the Ostrich Inn, South Creake, which raised just over �100.

The fundraiser was organised by landlady Marion Peck, Alison Wakeman and Pauline and Peter Holl.