GRAN Wendy Bryant is battling to raise money to send her dying granddaughter Charlotte on holiday to Disneyworld.

Charlotte, seven, was diagnosed last Wednesday with an inoperable brain tumour and has months to live.

Despite the diagnosis by surgeons at Bath's Royal United Hospital Mrs Bryant, of Victoria Road, Devizes, said she and Charlotte's parents had pinned their hopes on getting a new wonder drug, called Zevalin, to treat Charlotte.

But they were told yesterday that the drug is not suitable for Charlotte's tumour.

Ms Bryant has now set up a registered charity to raise money for Charlotte and other people who have brain tumours.

Charlotte lives with her parents, Alison and Bill and three-year-old brother, Leigh, in Trowbridge.

Ms Bryant, 50, said: "We are a close knit family and we are totally devastated.

"Since the diagnosis we have been trawling the Internet and finding out about brain tumours and what drugs are available.

"We found out about Zevalin which has an 86 per cent success rate in reducing or curing tumours.

"We hoped we would be able to send Charlotte to America to be treated with Zevalin.

"I telephoned different surgeons in America about Charlotte's condition who were very helpful but I got the confirmation in an e-mail yesterday from a doctor in California that Zevalin was not suitable for Charlotte's tumour.

"We know now that we haven't got her for long.

"Hopefully the radiotherapy treatment she is going to have at Bristol Children's Hospital will help her a bit.

"We do need to send her on holiday with her parents and brother.

"The doctors say Charlotte has approximately four months and that is not quality life."

Charlotte, a pupil at Paxcroft School, Trowbridge, has been diagnosed with brain stem glioma, one of the rarest forms of cancer.

Ms Bryant was with her daughter in law, Alison, and Charlotte at the RUH when the diagnosis was made.

Charlotte's father, Bill, was at home looking after Leigh.

Ms Bryant said: "The most devastating thing for me was telling my son, Bill, that Charlotte was terminally ill."

Ms Bryant and her family have been collecting money at pubs and clubs in Devizes, Trowbridge and Bradford-on-Avon and have raised £1,000.

This will be used towards paying for another drug, called Temozolomide, until it becomes available on the NHS next month and towards sending the family to Disneyworld but they need to raise more money.

Ms Bryant said Charlotte, a fan of pop group S Club 7, was looking forward to going to Disneyworld.

Ms Bryant is determined to help other children as well as adults who have brain tumours.

The charity she has set up is called Charlotte's Chance of Life Fund.

She said: "Our aim is to raise money to buy drugs, particularly Zevalin, that are not available on the NHS for patients and if children are terminally ill we will raise money to send them on holiday.

"We will also provide information about the different drugs available. Using the Internet has made us realise that there are so many drugs out there that people don't know about. There are also many different kinds of tumours."

Ms Bryant has also written to Prime Minister Tony Blair, asking him why Zevalin is not available on the NHS.

Anyone who would like to make a donation to help Charlotte should send cheques, payable to Charlotte's Chance of Life Fund, to Jill Crooks at the Gazette , 14 Market Place, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1HT. The Gazette will pass them on to the family.