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Minibus appeal close to target

A children’s hospice dream of getting a new minibus has moved a step closer thanks to generous readers of the Derby Evening Telegraph.

The paper’s Rainbows Hospice Minibus Appeal now stands at £28,000 – just £10,000 short of the amount needed for a new bus.

The Loughborough hospice, which cares for sick children across the region, already has one minibus but it can only transport two children in electric wheelchairs at a time.

The new 15-seater minibus is adaptable and can carry four children in electric wheelchairs and eight others.

Jo Plant, the hospice’s fundraising co-ordinator, said: “The fundraising has been going extremely well. We have been inundated with people offering donations.

“Everybody has been tremendous in Derby. They are a very generous bunch.”

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