The East Anglian Daily Times' campaign to raise money to help support local children suffering from cancer and leukaemia has smashed through its £50,000 target.

The Archant title launched CLIC into Action in a bid to help Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood to fund a children's cancer nurse and a play specialist for a year.

And less than nine months later all the money has been raised.

EADT deputy editor Dominic Castle said: "When we launched the appeal we knew that our readers would back it to the hilt - but what has stunned us is the speed with which we have hit the target.

"We have also been overwhelmed by the hundreds of gestures of support the appeal has received, from the people who have sent in their own money, money they collected for their birthdays, money they raised in dozens of different ways.

"We've also had fantastic support from businesses like BT, which helped raise £10,000 for the appeal.

"Now we'd like to keep going and see how much we can collect by the end of the year, as we know CLIC will make great use of every penny they get."

The EADT launched its camapign in February and since then readers have been holding fundraising events across the region.

Among those charity events were balls, special auctions, cycle rides, golf days, bowls tournaments and a teddy bear parachute jump.

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