Millionaire gives away his estate

A Northumberland millionaire is selling his £16m country estate and giving every penny of the proceeds to charity. Brian Burnie is open to offers for the Doxford Hall Hotel and its 10 acre estate near Alnwick.

He hopes to use the profits from the sale to establish and pay for a Macmillan cancer nurse for north Northumberland.

The 64-year-old also hopes to pay for a set of custom-made vehicles to take cancer patients to and from hospitals.



Mr Burnie said: "We live in a me, me, me society and it has always been important to me to think of others. We can all do something by leaving money to charity when we die, but why don't we do something while we are still living?"

Father-of-three Mr Burnie said he and his wife Shirley - a breast cancer survivor - would live on their private pension when the estate was sold. He said: "We won't exactly be selling the Big Issue but we will be downsizing."

Mr Burnie said he will call the transport service Daft As A Brush and will use brightly coloured vehicles.