'Come and join us in pink'

STAFF from an accountants office are encouraging women to look pretty in pink next month - all for a good cause.

A team of 13 women - a number likely to rise - from Saffery Champness will line up for the Pink Ladies' Sunset Walk.

The team are keen walkers and regularly get together for charity events - but this one is especially close to internal accounts manager, Tomina Hobbs's heart.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2001 and has been a member of the Pink Ladies for seven years.

Her best friend, Anne McMillan, who lost her battle with the disease in November, organised the original Sunset Walk in 2007 with fellow Pink Lady, Doreen Le Poidevin.

'Anne was absolutely amazing and it is certainly an extra incentive to get people involved,' said Mrs Hobbs.

All the money raised by the group, which was formed by six women in 2000, will stay in the island.