A CHEQUE for £8,000 has been presented by Bob Johns, main trustee of Robert Johns Leukemia Fund (RJLF), to the children’s oncology unit at Plymouth Hospital.

Robert Johns died in 1983 after a long fought battle with leukaemia and his father, Bob Johns, from Week St Mary, set up the charity along with the other trustees Hazel Cartright and the late Roy Cobbledick.

Bob presented the cheque, accompanied by Twin Harmony’s Jenna and Morwenna Matthews, and their mother Kath Matthews, at Plymouth Hospital on January 25. It was received by Dr Myooren Wimalandera, specialist paediatric oncology consultant, and Michael Wallis, a fundraiser for

Twin Harmony have helped raise thousands of pounds for RJLF through concerts and sales of their CD ‘As Long As We Have Music’, and this has contributed towards the £8,000 presented at Plymouth.

The sum of £4,000 has also been given from RJLF to the Royal Marsden Hospital.

The funds are given to the medical establishments in support of their work against leukaemia.