THE call to business is: Act now - support St Catherine's Hospice Day Care Extension Appeal and you'll be in good company!

It's just £50 a brick and the following firms have already started building:

Avalon Group, Chorley have bought 10 bricks; Priory Art Group, have brought two, as have Redrow Homes, Mr and Mrs Mann of Preston, and Starvale, while Cowburn Haulage Contractors have invested in four.

Others who have bought a brick are Christian Funeral Service; Ann Robinson and Pauline Moon; GB Antique Centre, Lancaster; B&D Print, Leyland; Finney and Hardiker, Preston; Apex Security; Royal Bank of Scotland; IBH Euxton Hall Hospital; Newtons Gas Showroom, Preston; The Happy Haddock, Preston; Mrs Fowler, Leyland; and The Royal Bank of Scotland Commercial Centre, Preston.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.