Cheque for £80K is handed over

A local charity has handed a cheque for £80,000 to a national good cause.

Zoe Crowson, who founded The Phoebe Research Fund, and her partner Steven Arnold handed over the cheque to Sharmila Collins from the national charity Cure EB on Thursday last week.

Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa, known as RDEB, is a devastating skin condition which causes the skin to blister and shear at the slightest touch causing the equivalent to a third degree burn.