A CANCER care charity is dreaming of a host of golden daffodils in Bolton to help mark its 50th anniversary.

The Marie Curie Cancer Care charity is a national organisation of nurses who provide practical care for terminally ill cancer patients in their own homes, with 16 nurses working in Bolton.

The charity is 50-years-old next year and to mark the anniversary a steering committee of local businesses and community leaders in Bolton is being set up with the target of raising £50,000.

And charity officials are shortly to have a meeting with Bolton Council and the Chamber of Commerce to try and find a suitable site for a Field of Hope. The piece of land will be planted with up to a million daffodil bulbs and people can buy one in memory of a loved one who has died. "It will be a continuing reminder that will bloom every year," said area fund-raiser Lesley Jackson.

There will also be a roll of honour set into the field bearing the names of those who have donated over £150 to the charity.

There are already hundreds of sites around the country and the Bolton field would be the seventh in the region. Anyone interested in joining the fund-raising committee or wants to know more about the Field of Hope can contact Lesley on 0161 480 3002 or write to Marie Curie Cancer Care, 40a High Street, Stockport, SK1 1EG.

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