HOLIDAYMAKERS are getting even more for their money this summer -- and hospice fund-raisers are asking them to give a little extra too.

The strong pound and weak Euro means travellers will get extra foreign cash with favourable exchange rates from almost every European country.

Tourists in Spain will get 269 pesetas for a pound this summer -- up 12 per cent on last year -- while travellers planning a Greek holiday will get an extra 15 per cent spending money, with 547 drachmas for every pound. And East Lancashire Hospice fund-raisers are asking holidaymakers to give any left-over foreign currency to the £1.3million appeal for a day care facilities extension to the Park Lee building, Blackburn.

All kinds of cash from dollars to drachmas will be converted by appeal organisers to boost the appeal's fund, which now stands at £246,110.

Stan Whyte, appeal organiser, said a foreign currency appeal was run briefly last summer but this year coins and notes from Greece to Greenland can be given until autumn.

Six leading travel agencies and 16 banks and building societies in Blackburn, Darwen and Accrington have agreed to display collection boxes for the appeal -- many are also handing out fliers with foreign currency.

For more information, call the hospice appeals office on 01254 660900. Sterling donations can also be made at any Natwest branch into the East Lancashire Hospice Fund Day Care Unit Appeal account, sort code 01-00-85 a/c 12804509.