A TREGADILLETT father will be doing a sponsored zip wire to raise money for the hospital department that helped his three year old daughter.

Lee Brain decided to raise money for the Paediatric Physiotherapy department at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, after his daughter Sophie had to spend eight weeks there.

Sophie's mum, Lynne Brain, said: "Sophie suffered from a stroke last October which severely weakened the right side of her body. The stroke seems to have been the result of a bad reaction to chicken pox which she had had last summer.

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