Farmer donates field for hospice

A farmer has donated a seven-acre site for a new children's hospice to be built on in Cornwall.

An eight-bedroom unit is planned for the land at Porthpean near St Austell which was donated by Howard Rosevear.

The unit will offer care and respite to children with life limiting illnesses and their families.

More than £1m has been raised towards the £5m unit by the Children's Hospice South West (CHSW), including £130,000 from BBC Radio Cornwall listeners.

Soon after becoming a tenant farmer 41 years ago, Mr Rosevear bought the land he had been working on including the field that is now to become the site for the children's hospice, depending on planning permission.

Mr Rosevear told BBC News: "In my twilight years I wanted to do something for the community.

"I was very lucky to get the tenancy so I talked it over with my wife and we decided to give this land to charity."