DONATIONS continue to arrive for the Evening Advertiser's memorial garden campaign.

The latest donations include £100 from Arkells Brewery which together with donations from individuals boosts the total to £6,731.

We want to build a garden for victims' families to sit and remember their loved ones in.

The sensory garden, possibly in Queen's Park, would cost between £5,000 to £10,000 to create and would be a peaceful place of reflection, planted with sweet smelling plants, hedges and a water feature.

A telephone poll among Evening Advertiser readers showed that Queen's Park was the favourite choice for the memorial garden.

The campaign was launched as a permanent reminder of the victims of mesothelioma, a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos fibres, has been dubbed the Swindon Disease because so many people have died from it in the town.

Numerous workers in the Great Western Railway coach building yard were exposed to the deadly asbestos dust up until the 70s.

And years later, increasing numbers of former workers have died from the disease with doctors warning that the peak number of new cases is yet to come.

Numerous local firms have contributed to the Swindon Disease Appeal, including the Zurich Community Trust, The Evening Advertiser, First Great Western, Swindon Door Services, and Great Western Enterprise.