A grandfather who started fundraising in memory of his grandson who was a victim of cot death is retiring after collecting more than £60,000.

Peter Pickering, 59, of Heaton, began raising money as a one-off in the hope that other families would not have to go through the same trauma as his did when his grandson Andrew Bushby died at the age of six months.

But after a decade of collecting, Mr Pickering is now retiring from the cause.

"With 40 hours per week, the workload in doing the appeal was getting too much, and I'm not getting any younger." said Mr Pickering, of Brantwood Road. "We thought the tenth anniversary would be an appropriate time to call it a day after raising £60,734."

Among other things, Mr Pickering's cash has paid for 259 special baby monitors for hospitals including Bradford Royal Infirmary and Airedale General Hospital, one PH monitor - which measures the amount of fluid in a baby's body after there has been a problem - and countless thermometers and resuscitation bags.

Every year, Mr Pickering has held a grand raffle by selling tickets in a supermarket.

He said: "Andrew was born in January 1991 and died in the August. My daughter Julie Ann woke up and had a feeling that something was terribly wrong.

"When she went to him he was under the covers just laid there. Obviously there couldn't be a worse experience for a family to have to go through.

"Even though I've stopped fundraising now, my granddaughter Stacey (Andrew's sister) said she wants to do something in seven or eight years, when Andrew would have been 18. She's keen to help."

Julie Ann has another son, Peter, five, and another daughter, Tiffany, eight.