A Bournemouth curry house is cooking up a New Year's Day feast - for UN troops in North Africa.

Eye of the Tiger's been hired to prepare more than four thousand containers of curries, poppadoms and bhajis for Bangladesh Air Force - in Darfur in the Sudan.

The huge meal's been paid for by Mustafa Azim, whose cousin - a squadron leader - used to eat at the Old Christchurch Road restaurant regularly, and he says he spent about three and a half thousand pounds to cater for his relative's entire unit.

The takeawyas, and a chef, will fly out from Heathrow later, ready for dinner tomorrow.