SUPERSCAN bosses were celebrating today after the appeal soared towards the £200,000 barrier.

The achievement will be a massive breakthrough for the fund-raising bandwagon which continues to roll towards £1 million.

The mammoth effort to buy a life-saving MRI scanner for East Lancashire people has been boosted by cash which is rolling in from Superwalk '96. It took more than seven months to raise £100,000, but only a further two-and-a-half months to reach £200,000, which it will do by this weekend.

Nearly £34,000 has been raised from Superwalk '96 in which hundreds of people took part in May.

But about a quarter of a walkers have not sent in their cash and appeal chairman Mike Trickett is appealing for people to get their money in by the end of July.

He said: "Our sincere thanks go to the thousands of men, women and children across East Lancashire who have contributed in whatever way to the SuperScan appeal.

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