PEOPLE dressed as teddy bears and children carrying their favourite toys turned out to support five-year-old Bradley Lowery.

The walk was part of a fundraising campaign to raise money so Bradley, who has neuroblastoma, to get specialist treatment in New York.

The five-year-old boy, from Blackhall, County Durham, is fighting the neuroblastoma form of cancer, which returned earlier this year, after he was thought to have previously overcome the disease, when it was first diagnosed in 2013.

Around two dozen people turned out to walk from Easington Colliery to Blackhall Colliery to help with the fundraising.

They set off from Healthworks, in Paradise Lane, where Bradley’s mum Gemma works and walked to the Co-Op in Blackhill Colliery.

The event was organised by Co-Op employee Gemma Robinson, who knows the family.

She said: “I know Bradley needs as much help as he can get and he needs extra money so they can be over in America. All the community needs to get involved.”

A campaign to raise £700,000 for the treatment reached its target when Everton Football Club donated £200,000 last week.

Family and friends are hoping to add to the sum to cover other travel, accommodation and extra care costs.