Parents campaign to buy toddler special equipment

TODDLER Toby Pearce suffers from an extre-mely rare condition which causes him to have multiple seizures a day and is severely delaying his development. Only 250 children in the UK have the condition called West Syndrome and Toby, aged two, needs lots of equipment to help him through life. So now parents Gemma and Mark Pearce have embarked on a fundraising campaign starting with a sold-out Crooner's Night at the Wolversdene Club tomorrow night. Gemma, of Lynwood Drive, Andover, said they needed to raise at least £4,600 to buy Toby a specially adapted bed for a start. Toby was born a normal baby. But it was after the age of three months he was diagnosed with the condition. "We noticed that he wasn't doing the things he... [read full story]