Hundreds of people enjoyed cups of coffee and a slice of cake at coffee mornings across the county to support a cancer charity.
 

Supporters organised dozens of events around Sussex on Friday as part of the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

People donated money at coffee mornings in locations including Brighton’s Metropole Hotel, a ‘mummy club’ in Hove, churches, cafes, schools, care homes and businesses, including The Argus, where staff enjoyed tea and cakes served up by assistant news editor Caroline
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The Hilton Metropole held a ‘Bake Off’ with over 60 cakes baked and 450 staff invited to tuck in.
 

Hove author Dorothy Koomson, who wrote The Ice Cream Girls, which was dramatised by ITV earlier this year, helped to serve cakes to customers at Sunshine Books, Art & Coffee in Hove Manor, Hove Street, Hove.
 

In Eastbourne, Rotarians raised £500 at the Mansion Lions Hotel on the seafront, where the Mayor of Eastbourne Mike Thompson and the town’s MP Stephen Lloyd joined 50 guests for a free breakfast.

As the breakfast finished the hotel’s owner, Sheik Abid-Gulzar, matched the amount by donating another £500.
 

At the independent Farlington School in Strood Park, Horsham, staff were invited into the Boarders’ Dining Room for coffee and hoped to beat last year's total of £250.

Staff at Brighton-based events company The Eventa Group ensured they had plenty of fun by dressing up as grannies when they hosted their coffee morning, where participants took part in a cake-baking competition, raffle and team- building activities.

The Queen’s Road company added £450 to the coffers of the campaign.

And contact centre Domestic & General dished up coffee and cakes at its Brighton office.

Last year, staff raised £300 for Macmillan Cancer Support, and this year HR manager Nicki Perry, who has also cycled across Kenya raising money for other cancer charities, took part. She said: “We’ve been taking tips from The Great British Bake Off and have put our best cakes forward.”