A MARATHON snooker game in the New Forest is thought to have raised about £500 for charity.
Dave Gook and Tony Smith managed to keep playing for 41 hours and notched up a total of 105 frames.
They started at 7pm on Friday and had hoped to play until late last night, but decided to call it a day yesterday lunchtime. The game was played at the New Forest Nondescripts Club, which grew out of an auxiliary police group formed during the Second World War.
Club secretary Tony Herbert said the money raised would go to the Fenwick Hospital, Lyndhurst, and the local Community Responders Group, a first aid team that keeps patients alive until the ambulance arrives.
He added: "Tony and Dave thought they'd like to do this marathon for something local.
"The club was already collecting for the Community Responders Group and we decided to support the Fenwick as well because that is also something that's much respected."
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