EBAY addicts with a “goldeneye” for bargains could find find a “licence to thrill” online as a two Norfolk sisters auction off items from international celebrities, including a Bond-girl suit, to raise cash for people with ME.

The outfit worn by Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond film Die Another Day is among more than 50 items donated by stars for the auction organised by Helen Buckenham, from Dersingham, and her sister Liz Smith, of Mundesley, in aid of charity Action for ME.

Long-time volunteer fundraisers, the charity has been close to their hearts since Mrs Buckenham was diagnosed with ME in 1991, aged 38.

The massive eBay auction, which started this month, is being organised by the pair as part of their Grand Challenge to raise £1,000 for the charity and has been launched to coincide with ME awareness week running from Monday, May 8, to Sunday, May 14.

Other lots in the auction will include T-shirts donated by singer Dido and comedians Johnny Vaughn and Avid Merrion, a suit from the Duchess of York and one from Dermot O’Leary, one of Barbara Windsor’s dresses and a silk waistcoat worn by Lord of the Rings actor Sir Ian McKellen.

Boxing gloves signed by heavyweight boxers Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis will also be up for grabs, as will a leather jacket worn by actress Helena Bonham Carter in the film Theory of Flight.

And fans of hit musicals Les Misérables and Gerry Springer the Opera will be able to bid for a piece of musical history with items from the sets being auctioned off.

But the sisters are not the only ones fundraising in their family as their 83-year-old mother Anne Reynolds, of Dersingham, is also aiming to raise £1,000 by auctioning off ties from the late Countdown host Richard Whiteley, Chris Tarrant, Bruce Forsyth and politicians Lord Steel, Lord Owen and the late Ted Heath.

The sisters have already raised around £200 from initial sales, including a T-shirt worn by singer Michael Crawford during his New York rehearsals for Phantom of the Opera.

While impossible to predict how popular items will prove the sisters are hoping one of their biggest money-spinners will be the suit from a recent James Bond film.

Worn on the historic occasion of the modern Miss Moneypenny’s first kiss with the daring spy (played by Pierce Brosnan), the suit was donated by actress Samantha Bond who played the role and is also a patron of Action ME.

Posted: 04|29|06 at 8:11 am. Filed under: UK News.