A WORCESTER woman volunteered to have her head shaved to support a colleague with cancer.

Sandra Kennedy, aged 38, decided to forfeit her hair in aid of Cancer Research after Wendy Freear, aged 49, began to lose hers as a result of chemotherapy.

She arranged to lose her locks publicly outside Worcester Guildhall yesterday morning to get maximum publicity for the charity.

The two women, both mothers of two, work together at Tolladine Community Centre.

Wendy is a youth development worker for Tolladine and Brickfields and Sandra is a community worker in the city centre for the Horizon charity, besides being a youth worker at Tolladine.

"I wanted to keep Wendy company, so we'll be two baldies," said Sandra.

Her husband, Mick, 21-year-old daughter Carla and 17-year-old son Wayne, are proud of her hair-raising gesture and think she is very brave.

"They have been telling me I will have to wear a hat, because they don't want to see me bald, but they have been very supportive.

"They have been asking all their friends to sponsor me," she said.

The two women are already planning another sponsored event for Cancer Research, AWOL, Youth on the Move, involving the young people they work with.

Groups of youngsters, who will be accompanied by youth workers, will be taken, blindfold, 15 miles out of the city and will then have a series of clues to help them find their way back to Brickfields Park.