A mobile phone shop in Bradford is to recycle old handsets to raise funds for Bradford City’s Burns Unit Appeal.

Angel Mobile Phones, in Rooley Avenue, Odsal Top, has pledged to give proceeds from unwanted handsets to the Telegraph & Argus-backed campaign, which aims to raise £100,000 to save the research unit at Bradford University from possible closure.

It was set up in the aftermath of the Valley Parade fire disaster in 1985, which cost 56 lives and injured more than 190.

Terry Dickinson, of Shelf Bantams, came up with the idea and approached shop manager Richard Stephenson.

Mr Dickinson said: “I had about four mobile phones in my drawer which weren’t being used. Everyone you speak to has old mobile phones and don’t know what to do with them. This is a good way to raise money for the appeal.”

Mobile phone collection bins are located at the Midland Road, Carlsberg and Sunwin stands at Valley Parade and the Banqueting Suite level reception.

They are also at Edward Foster & Son Plumbers’ Merchants in Nelson Street, Bradford, the Shoulder and Mutton Pub in Shelf and Revive Cafe in Shelf.