FOUR pain relief devices worth nearly £500 have been given to the East Lancs Hospice in memory of a Clitheroe dad who died of cancer.

The machines, called eXPain TSE, have been donated in memory of Kenneth MacMillan by Advanced Pain Management of the Saturn Centre, Blackburn.

Kenneth died from a rare form of stomach cancer aged 37 in 2000, leaving a four-year-old son and two-week-old daughter. Former classmates at Ribblesdale High School, Clitheroe, launched the Kenneth MacMillan Memorial Fund and raised over £6,000 for the East Lancs Hospice and the Grand Cinema and Arts Centre, Clitheroe, where a recording studio will be dedicated in his memory.

Advanced Pain Management has donated the pain-relief devices, popular with sportsmen and celebrities, to the hospice. They have been extensively used in hospices throughout the UK since clinical trials in 1998 revealed they had the potential to alleviate chronic pain in cancer sufferers.

Graeme Le Saux was one of the first celebrities to use eXPain TSE for ankle pain while playing for Blackburn Rovers and Olympic gold medallist triple-jumper Jonathan Edwards is currently testing the device.

Advanced Pain Management director Vicky Lee said the device worked by sending gentle electrical impulses via the spinal cord to treat aches and pains elsewhere in the body.

Further details of eXPain TSE are available from Advanced Pain Management on 0800 0523 010.