CARNIVAL programme sellers will be knocking on doors throughout Kidderminster during the next week to boost funds for this year's charity - Operation Covert.

Scores of Scouts will be out in force helping the organising committee sell the £1 programmes door-to-door before the big day on Saturday, June 18.

The sale of the programmes - produced by the Kidderminster Shuttle/Times & News - could raise up to £2,000 for the appeal to fund the rebuilding of the Rhydd Covert Scout centre, which was destroyed by arsonists last year.

Carnival vice-president, Peter Picken, said: "Scouts throughout Kidderminster are helping themselves by helping sell the programmes this year and we are very grateful for their support.

"We hope householders will support us with their usual generosity as thousands of our children have enjoyed the superb facilities at Rhydd in the past and future generations should have the same opportunity."