CARING pensioner Alice Smith has been coppering up for six months and is donating her jar of pennies to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph Magic Eye Appeal.

Alice, 76, has been collecting 2ps and 1ps since Christmas, having donated the earlier contents of her bottle to Blackburn Hospice.

Now the contents of the 'special jar', which has been sitting on the mantelpiece in Alice's Bradda Road home in Higher Croft, will help the whole of East Lancashire.

She said: "I have no idea how much is in it but it will be around £40 I think. Every time I come I from the shops I drop the money in and watch it build.

Alice chose to support Magic Eye in memory of her husband, who died from bladder cancer 11 years ago. The appeal aims to raise £200,000 for a specialist scanner to help in the detection of stomach and oesophageal cancers.