ABOUT £3,500 has been raised to give a 25-year-old woman with terminal cervical cancer the wedding of her dreams.

Jamie Lea Jepson, of Birkwood Avenue, Cudworth, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in May and underwent a hysterectomy to get rid of the tumour, which was initially thought to have been successful.

But in October she was given the devastating news the cancer had returned in her pelvis and doctors could do no more.

Around 300 friends and family gathered at the Market pub in Elsecar for a fundraising event last Friday after Jamie and fiancé Gareth Harrison made the decision to get married in January.

** The full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle, dated December 12. **