A CAROL-singing weekend at Sainsbury’s Amblecote raised nearly £900 for good causes.

Primary schools and borough groups descended on the supermarket on National Carol Singing Weekend, on December 13 and 14, and raised £873.48 for a host of charities as they belted out a selection of Christmas carols and rock songs.

Pupils from Brierley Hill Primary School raised £144 for the store's charity partner - the Black Country Food Bank, which helps vulnerable individuals and families in crisis by providing three days emergency food supplies while a longer term solution is developed.

While singers from Brierley Hill Churches Together raised an extra £90 for the Foodbank, based in Albion Street, Brierley Hill.

Other groups who performed over the weekend were: Stourbridge Choir and Orchestra, which raised £194.99 for the cancer unit at Russell's Hall Hospital; Withymoor Primary School pupils who raised £137.49 towards a school outdoor play project; and St James' C of E Primary School pupils, who raised £307 for the Classrooms in the Clouds charity in Tibet.

The Black Country Food Bank also received a cheque for £400 from the supermarket which was raised through an instore tombola and customer donations – and following a charity bag pack on December 20 Foodbank volunteers took away a third trolley of food donations given by generous shoppers during the week.