A specialist ambulance appeal in the name of a teenager who died has been given a cash boost by jazz fans. 

Members of the Concorde Club at Eastleigh handed £2,750 to the Smile4 Rich fund. 

The charity drive aims to raise £80,000 for a specially equipped ambulance for the Wessex Neurological Centre at Southampton General Hospital. 

The fund was set up by family and friends of Richard bowler, 15, of Locks Heath, who collapsed on a football pitch from a brain haemorrhage and died at Southampton General in July 2002.  It has passed £60,000 so far. 

The cash injection came as part of £8,000 doled out by the Concorde as it celebrates the 30^th year of its charity pantomime. 

Another £1,500 went to Honeypot House, which welcomes hundreds of severely disadvantaged children to the New Forest for a holiday.  The sum of £1,000 each went to the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Activities Centre, Bursledon, near Fareham, which provides activity breaks for disabled young people, to replace wet weather gear, and the Cardiac Risk in the Young and Paediatrics Cystic Fibrosis charities.