ALMOST £30,000 has been donated to buy lifesaving equipment in memory of Barnsley's Ebonie Webb.

Ebonie, who suffered from a brain tumour for most of her life, died in April aged seven, after being diagnosed when she was just six-months-old.

Now, £28,538 raised by Buddies Children's Centre on Burton Road, Monk Bretton, has been donated to Sheffield Children's Hospital's scanner appeal.

Staff at the nursery, which Ebonie attended for three years, had initially raised the money to support her bid for proton treatment - a type of radiotherapy.

But after the tumour grew, the radical treatment was no longer possible.

The family are now setting up a registered charity called Chasing Rainbows With Ebonie Webb which will support not only children with brain tumours, but also their siblings. There's already £70,000 in the pot.