A pub is to stage a special fundraiser for a brave six-year-old girl from Westhoughton so she can go on a special holiday.

Last year, mum Karen and Warren began to notice five-year-old Pippa Judd had developed bruising and was struggling to walk.

After visiting doctors, the family found out the news every family dreads: Pippa had been diagnosed with leukaemia. She has to regularly attend hospital for procedures while she undergoes chemotherapy administered at home.

Now, the Rose and Crown pub is set to host a fundraising day to raise funds to take Pippa on holiday after her chemotherapy ends in November 2025.

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The event, which takes place from 2pm to 7pm on Saturday, July 6, will include stalls and entertainment.

Already set to attend are puppeteer Phil Fletcher, best known for his work with the BBC as Hacker T Dog, and dance vocalist Karen Parry, who featured with Flip & Fill on Shooting Star.

Lauren, Pippa’s sister, is helping to organise the day.

The 27-year-old, who praised her step-dad Warren and mum Karen, said: “We’re raising the funds to get her to go on a special holiday once she finishes her chemotherapy, because the holiday she was meant to be going on before this, she was meant to be going to Lanzarote.

“But obviously that got cancelled because she was in hospital for seven weeks at Manchester Children’s Hospital, so Pippa was really upset about that.”

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Warren spoke of the toll leukaemia was taking on the family – with the Manchester hospital an hour away from the family’s Westhoughton home.

The 57-year-old said: “It’s such a long treatment. She doesn’t finish until November next year and she has chemo every day here, so she has to have oral chemo we give her, and she’s on antibiotics every weekend – she has to have them until the end of treatment.

“Once a month she has to have steroids, a five-day course of steroids. They’re not the best, they do affect quite a lot of things, her mental health and stuff like that, they’re quite strong.”

He added: “We still can’t believe it really, it’s all a bit of a dream. It’s become our normality, obviously.

“Not a brilliant normality but we make the best of it with Pippa. We try to keep her happy all the time, that’s all that you can do.”

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