Bracelets support for reporter’s campaign

A schoolboy has made more than 100 friendship bracelets to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust in support of Advertiser sport reporter Warwick Lane.

Alex Coulthard, 11, who lives next door to Warwick’s family in Norwell, uses eight feet of power cord to make each bracelet.

The cord is twisted together to make a range of patterns and colours.

He said: "I started by doing them for friends but then started making some for charity."

Alex asks for a £1 donation for each bracelet, but said many people were giving more.

The bracelets are available at Brenda’s village store in Norwell.

Alex plans to take some to Norwell Primary School, where he was a pupil until the summer, and Tuxford Academy, where he will be going to study in September.

He is looking for other venues to take the bracelets.

He said: "I enjoy doing them. I am going to start thinking of new patterns to create, and other charities to raise money for."

His mother, Shannon, said: "We are proud of him. His granddad died six weeks ago from cancer, which started it all off.

"The first question Alex asked when his granddad got ill was would they find a cure for cancer. He wants to do his bit to help.

"He walks around the house everywhere doing them.

"Whatever Alex is doing, he will be tying a bracelet together in his hands."

Warwick is battling leukaemia for a second time.

As part of his treatment, he will have a stem cell transplant, from a person with the same tissue type, to replace and repair his own damaged cells.