THE first night of a series of performances in aid of Cancer Research UK raised £500 – and there are three more shows in the coming week.

Take Three Girls - actor Jenny Warwick, violinist Ruth Gasperini and pianist Monika Balogh – performed Alan Bennett’s monologue Bed Among The Lentils at Roadwater Village Hall last Friday and won acclaim from the audience.

After a second performance in Minehead earlier this week, the trio next perform at the Yarn Market Hotel in Dunster on Tuesday (July 11) then All Saints Church at Wootton Courtenay on Wednesday and Culbone Church on Thursday (July 12 and 13).

All three performances start at 7.30pm and admission is £10 – with wine. While the money raised is for Cancer Research UK, it will go specifically towards research into secondary breast cancer.