An appeal by the Lincolnshire Echo to raise £250,000 towards a new day care centre at a local hospice has reached almost £23,000.

St Barnabas Hospice, on Nettleham Road, Lincoln, aims to open a new £1 million facility on Hawthorn Road. The land costs £400,000 and the building will cost around £500,000.

National Lottery funding has supplied £471,000 and St Barnabas Trust has provided £250,000 from its reserves. The Echo plans to make up the shortfall.

It is hoped to open the new centre to patients at the end of summer next year.

The newspaper has been reporting on all the fund-raising efforts of its readers.

It recently carried the emotive story of one former patient diagnosed with terminal cancer. He praised the care and support he received from the hospice before he was discharged when his condition stabilised.

He is now helping raise funds for the Echo's appeal with fellow members of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes.

Meanwhile, another Echo campaign, to raise £2,000 for the Lincoln Breast Unit, has reached its target.

That appeal was launched in October as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The money raised will provide a lockable bookcase and books about possible treatments for the patients' library at Lincoln County Hospital's Breast Unit.

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