SOCCER legend and Bolton Wanderers Club president Nat Lofthouse O.B.E. drew the winning tickets in a Christmas raffle at the Reebok Stadium, to finance a charity's annual European "tour". The raffle by the local charity 999 Romanian Child Line was held to raise funds to finance a ninth convoy to the impoverished East European country and it needs to raise more than £7,000 to cover the cost of the 4,000 mile trek in May. The group - which consists of several serving or retired police officers and their wives from the Bolton and Rochdale police divisions - have travelled to Romania every year since 1991 taking medical goods, food and toys to hospitals and orphanages. Since the first convoy the charity has now taken aid, worth more than £5m to Romania

The Christmas raffle raised a total of £1,700 towards the cost of the next convoy in four months time. Two articulated trucks and one mini bus loaded with mainly medical aid will leave Bolton in May en route to two children's hospitals and to distribute goods to the abandoned children in Bucharest

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