A TERMINALLY ill dad with just months to live says the only thing on his ‘bucket list’ is seeing his son hit a cancer fund raising target.

Andrew Tingle’s eight year-old son Callum Lane-Tingle wants to raise £5,000 for Cancer Research by September when family members are taking part in the charity’s Relay for Life event in Middlesbrough.

Remarkably, Callum, a pupil at Stockton’s Fairfield Juniors School, is already nearly half way towards the target, having raised more than £2,200.

Mr Tingle, 47, an operations director with a pub company, had a kidney and his adrenal gland removed last April after it was revealed he was suffering from kidney cancer.

He has received treatment, but discovered at the end of last month the cancer had in fact spread to other parts of his body, including his lungs, pancreas and lymph nodes in his neck.

Mr Tingle, who is married to wife Cheryl and also has a two year-old daughter Chloe, said: “They took us into a room and said ‘Sorry but you have got no hope’.

“It’s secondary cancer and cannot be cured and I could end up in a box within six months. "I have obviously got a young family and while I am not scared of dying it is the thought of what I am leaving behind that hurts the most.”

After being told of his dad’s operation, Callum decided to start fund raising for Cancer Research and began making necklaces, keyrings, bracelets and bookmarks, selling the items at craft fairs.

He recently raised a thousand pounds after setting up a stall at family fun day held at The Wynyard pub, in Billingham, and is planning another event at Ropner Park, in Stockton, in July.

Mr Tingle, of Whitton Road, Stockton, said: “He knows what cancer does, one of his school teachers died of cancer and he decided to jump on board.

“The whole family is very proud of Callum. For me every day is a blessing, I go to hospital once a fortnight and I hope a second course of chemotherapy could slow the cancer down.

“But it has got to a point where you have to accept it.

“As things stand every month I have after Christmas will be a bonus and I only have one thing on my bucket list – that is to see Callum hand over the £5,000 in September.”

For more information about Callum’s fund raising search Facebook for CLT Caring Gifts.