THERE will be a charity auction in Cleobury Mortimer tomorrow (Friday, May 5) to raise funds for treatment for a little boy with a rare form of cancer.

An exclusive Jaguar-driving experience, a week's use of a VW motorhome, seven nights in a holiday cottage in Portugal and a night in a yurt, complete with hot tub, are all on offer at an auction of promises to raise vital funds for six-year-old Rupert Beckett from Bridgnorth.

Rupert’s family have launched a desperate £750,000 fundraising bid to send Rupert to America for pioneering treatment to save his life.

He was diagnosed with Stage 4 High Risk Neuroblastoma at the age of three. The rare cancer - known as the silent cancer - affects just 100 children in the UK each year.

A wide range of lots are available, including shooting days, baking, fishing trips, sheep shearing, digger and tractor hires, a case of gin, chimney sweeping, driving tuition, yoga sessions, bales of hay, butchered lambs for the freezer, two nights' B&B accommodation, Ludlow Food Festival tickets, horse-racing days, and a pet-portrait commission.

The evening will be hosted by the Old Lion Inn, Cleobury Mortimer at 7.30pm and the auctioneers will be father-and-son duo Hylton Smith and Hilton Smith, from Hopton Wafers.

There will be a marquee and outside bar.