PHEONIX Nights actors Dave Spikey and Archie Kelly are to be VIP guests at a comedy dinner to raise money for the Bolton Coronary Care Appeal 2002.

The organisers are hoping to add £10,000 to the £1 million appeal to build a 10-bed unit for heart attack victims and they want to dedicate the evening to the memory of the people who lost their lives in the 1946 Bolton Wanderers disaster. Thirty-three soccer fans died and more than 500 were injured in the worst disaster in Bolton since the Hulton Colliery explosion of 1912.

The fans died as they crammed into Burnden Park to see an FA Cup match between Bolton and Stoke.

Organisers of the dinner, at the Reebok on May 24, are hoping the victims' families will allow them to put up a commemorative plaque in the unit when it is built.

Dave Spikey, co-writer of Peter Kay's Pheonix Nights -- the smash hit TV comedy written by the Bolton-born comic -- is the star attraction alongside lesser known Archie Kelly, who plays Kenny Senior in the show.

But people wanting to buy tickets will be disappointed -- all 400 have already sold.