HORROR movie fan Emma Grieff will experience her own Hallowe'en fright night after winning a contest to spend a night in a haunted shop.

Emma, aged 18, beat nine rivals to raise the most sponsorship money and secure a night alone in a former slaughterhouse in the grimly-named Butchery Lane in Canterbury.

But Emma, of Ringley Bridge, Stoneclough, admits she is getting collywobbles as the big night approaches.

Staff at the Canterbury store, owned by Timpson's, speak of seeing ghostly figures and other strange goings-on, including an antique display meat cleaver crashing to the floor and narrowly missing a member of staff.

Emma said: "I'm getting more nervous as the night gets nearer.

"My boss is laughing at me and I'm being teased by my colleagues. They keep coming up to me and shouting 'Boo!' down my ear.

"I know the staff in the Canterbury store won't go in the stockroom in the morning because they are convinced it is haunted.

"It will be something to talk about in the future -- if I survive!"

The shoe repairer, who works for Timpson's in Preston, was one of only nine workers nationwide brave enough to volunteer for the ghostly challenge in aid of the NSPCC's Full Stop appeal.

She will face the challenge alone after raising the most sponsorship money of £520.

Pitman Recruitment of Knowsley Street, Bolton, backed her to the tune of £200. Emma is told about her spooky date Emma receives her sponsorship from Pitman's Christine Green Three Pigeons' landlady Margaret Thompson prepares for a Hallowe'en night of terror in the pub cellar. Dare you enter and hear her tale of terror? Ref: H4289/8