An appeal to raise £1 million for a brave toddler's cancer treatment has already reached the halfway mark in a matter of days. Little Hallie Reeve is battling juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia at just 20-months-old and needs life-saving treatment not available on the NHS.
Her family are in a race against time to raise over a million pounds so she can have pioneering CAR T-cell therapy in the United States. And since a GoFundMe page was set up ten days ago, more than £530,000 has been raised to help get Hallie the treatment she desperately needs.
Over 32,000 donors have given cash - including six people who have donated £5,000 each - to get the Coventry family past the halfway mark. Hallie was diagnosed with the rare cancer during her first holiday abroad in Spain after a doctor originally dismissed her symptoms as being down to the hot weather.
