Generous staff and customers at a supermarket have raised cash to help a little boy with brain damage.
Alex Wakeling's parents collected a cheque for £2,545 from Little Clacton Safeway yesterday.
The store raised the money for an appeal aimed at sending Alex for specialist treatment in Poland.
He was left brain-damaged following an accident in Clacton in May 2000.
Phil Bray, store meat manager, started the fundraising there after reading about Alex in the Evening Gazette.
He said: "I'd never met Alex but I read about him in the Gazette and just thought we could do what we could to help him."
As well as collection buckets around the store and Safeway petrol station, they also held events, such as a sponsored staff leg wax.
About £5,000 is needed to send Alex for treatment at the Euromed Rehabilitation Centre, Mielno.
Published Monday January 5, 2004
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