Shrimps' vice-president Ken Parker is asking fans to help the victims of a typhoon that made thousands homeless in South East Asia.

Ken is helping to collect second hand clothes to send to the survivors of Typhoon Frank, which battered the Philippine island of Iloilo in June.

Winds of up to 100mph and severe floods killed hundreds and left thousand homeless.

Ken, whose Philippino wife Jo's father comes from Iloilo - an hour's flight south of the capital Manila - says many people lost all of their possessions during the floods.

"My wife's father's side of the family are from there and they said how devastating it was and asked if we could do anything to help," he told the Citizen..

"There were around 30,000 people sheltering on roofs because the floods were so bad. The shanty town places were all washed away and people were left with just the clothes on their back. Now they are living in squalor in makeshift accommodation."

The former club chairman said people could help by leaving their unwanted clothes and shoes at the commercial office at Morecambe Football Club. He has already arranged for the clothes' transportation when he has enough to fill a container - and his wife's father will organise the distribution of the clothes to the victims.

"People can donate any clothes, men's, women's, children's - anything that isn't wanted. They will be put to good use in the Philippines," he says.