MFI Homeworks in Wallasey is joining stores from across the North West in helping to kick-start a £5m fund-raising appeal by the Francis House children's hospice to care for terminally ill children.

The chain has donated £2,000 to the Rainbow Appeal to help fund a major publicity campaign for the Manchester-based hospice, which opened in 1991.

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