Cancer victim Charlotte Wakeham is responding well to treatment and it looks like she will get her dream holiday to Disney World.

The seven-year-old Paxcroft School student, who has a terminal brain tumour, has had three weeks of radiotherapy and drug treatment.

Charlotte's grandmother, Wendy Bryant, said: "Her walking is a lot better, she doesn't need help going up the stairs, and her eyesight has improved tremendously.

"She was squinting before but now her eyes are open."

Charlotte was given only months to live at the beginning of June and her family and well wishers at once rallied round to raise as much money as possible to try and help her.

Some of the money has been used to fund a new drug treatment that costs £1,200 a time.

Chlomipramine is an anti-depressant but early trials have shown it can slow the growth of tumours like Charlotte's. Ms Bryant said: "We don't know whether it is the chlomipramine or the radiotherapy that is helping her improve, but it doesn't really matter."

Charlotte's Chance Of Life fund was originally set up to fund a trip to Disneyland, Paris, for Charlotte, her parents, Bill and Alison, and her three-year-old brother, Leigh.

The fund long since surpassed the amount needed and several benefactors offered to fund the trip, but Charlotte has not been well enough to go.

Her family hope that once her treatment finishes in three weeks, they will be able to take her to Disney World in Florida.

The family decided any money raised that isn't used to help Charlotte will help other children and that fundraising will continue.

They have already split the £4,000 raised by events last weekend with the parents of a terminally ill Swindon girl.

Thousands of pounds have been raised with the help of Wiltshire people and businesses.

Recent donations to the fund include: See-Saw Nursery, £301; Wally's Soft Play Centre, £84; John of Gaunt School pupil Hayley Stevens who raised £171 through a sponsored silence; St James's Church, £300; Trowbridge Garden Centre £500; and parents at Paxcroft School, who raised £380 through a jumble sale.