What I like to see! If only all the other millionaires in the world did this…

A millionaire is donating the profits from the sale of a mansion in Northumberland to charity.

Brian Burnie, 64, sold Doxford Hall Hotel and its ten-acre estate for £9 million and hopes to invest the money in funding cancer care for people in the region.

The millionaire originally bought the property, which includes a 25-bedroom hotel and spa, from Northumberland County Council in 1993, but now hopes the funds generated by the sale can be used to pay for a Macmillan cancer nurse and specialist vehicles for cancer patients.

Mr Burnie made the decision after his wife won a battle with breast cancer.

He commented that he aims to counteract the “me, me, me society” in Britain by thinking of the needs of others.

“We can all do something by leaving money to charity when we die, but why don’t we do something while we are still living?” Mr Burnie stated.

Over £45 million was donated to Macmillan Cancer Support through legacies in 2008 – more than a third of the total of £126 million donated to the charity.