COFFEE drinkers and cake munchers across Dorset are on track to raise more than £80,000 for the Macmillan Cancer Support World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.

This year Macmillan supporters came up with new ideas to raise cash including staff in the Marks & Spencer café at Castlepoint, who dressed up as doctors and nurses to serve coffee. One resident of Matlock Road in Ferndown dressed up in his dinner suit to serve coffee and cakes.

And in an unusual event last Saturday a group of fundraisers took part in a midnight swim off Durley Chine.

Bournemouth mayor Cllr Barry Goldbart threw his own coffee morning in the Mayor’s Parlour attended by councillors and friends.

Cancer survivor Julie Leigh, who runs her own business from home, is holding a virtual coffee morning where people can donate via her justgiving page.

Talbot House Prep School in Bournemouth went green for a day and raised more than £400.

The Coffee Shop in Winton, Springbourne Christian Centre and Wayahead Travel in Bournemouth, Parkstone Conservative Club and Premier Bites in Poole all staged coffee mornings yesterday.

An event held by a Coy Pond Road resident was hoped to have raised at least £2,000.

And Spencer McCarthy, chairman of Churchill Retirement Living kept his promise to shave his head if he raised £1,000 for Macmillan.

Exchange and Mart in the Daily Echo building also threw a spectacular spread of coffee cake, biscuits and cupcakes to raise around £100.

Events are taking place today at Anita’s Coffee Morning at Oakdale Conservative Club in Darby’s Lane, Poole, Baileys Estate Agents in Wimborne Road, Moordown and Burton Green Church at Salisbury Road, Burton near Christchurch.