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The news that the Children’s Hospice South West have revealed plans to provide a children’s hospice service to support life limited children and their families in Cornwall has been met with delight.

Families with sick children who currently have to cross the border into Devon to use the specialist facilities and care provided by nearest children’s hospice in North Devon are thrilled at the news of this appeal.

A family at Little Bridge House

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Cornwall is pledging its support to the Β£5m appeal for the children's hospice in the county. The aim of the Precious Lives appeal is to save Cornish families long journeys to existing hospices at Barnstaple or Bristol.

Eddie Farwell, along with his late wife Jill, founded the Children's Hospice South West and opened Little Bridge House back in 1991. It was after years of travelling to Helen House in Oxford with their own two life limited children. Eddie joined James Churchfield on Monday's Breakfast Show...

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Cornwall reporter Chris Young has been along to interview many of the families about what this means to them:

In his first report Chris Young, looks at the work of Little Bridge House in north Devon. It was the first centre opened by Children's Hospice South West, back in 1995:

Georgia Hazelton, who's nine, suffers from a severe lung disease. She's a regular visitor at Little Bridge House, the north Devon hospice. She's been telling Chris Young about a painting she did of herself which was auctioned winning widespread publicity:

The Precious Lives Appeal aims to build a hospice in Cornwall to save local families with seriously ill youngsters having to travel to Barnstaple or Bristol for care. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Cornwall's special correspondent, Chris Young, has been talking to parents whose children have life-threatening conditions:

Also supporting the appeal is Lieutenant Commander Chris Godwin, the Commanding Officer of the Search and Rescue Squadron, seven-seven-one, at RNAS Culdrose. His son, Colton, who had a genetic disorder, died last August aged eight months at Little Bridge House, the hospice in north Devon:

More reports to follow soon...