A PUB landlord driven by his daughter's triumph over cancer has won a charity golf tournament.

Tony Hooley (40) and team-mates Paul Jones, Gary Hill and Brian Kane beat 27 other contenders at the Ciao Italia UK annual golf tournament at Manchester Golf Club, Middleton.

He will donate the £1,000 prize to the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust, a charity that aims to raise awareness of an illness that affected his daughter in her early years.

Molly Hooley was 19 months old when she had to undergo an emergency operation to remove a tumour from her eye. The operation and subsequent chemotherapy removed the cancer and Molly, now aged 12, was given an artificial eye.

Mr Hooley, landlord of the Roach Bank Inn, Croft Lane, Bury, believes a greater awareness of the rare cancer is necessary to ensure doctors catch it early.

He said: "I wanted to support this charity because it is still very low profile and much more awareness of the condition is needed.

"It was a terribly frightening time for us when Molly had to have her operation but we were lucky to have noticed that something was wrong before it developed too far.

"The doctors couldn't save Molly's eye but they were able to remove the tumour before it spread to her brain."

Between 40 and 50 children are diagnosed with retinoblastoma every year in the UK. The cancer tends to develop only in children aged up to five years.

It can be detected by a cat's eye effect in the child's eye, with the pupil reflecting light as a white reflex.