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When Alexa Samuel planted pumpkin seeds in May she couldn't wait to carve one of them for Halloween.

But now that she has harvested the largest of the bunch, the selfless 10-year-old has decided not to keep it for herself.

Instead the Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Rhosafan pupil from Cwmavon, Port Talbot , is auctioning it off to raise money for a mum with terminal cancer .

Carolyn Gammon , also from Cwmavon, is raising £150,000 to purchase life-extending drugs not normally available on the NHS should the medication the NHS is currently prescribing her stop working, as she has been warned it will do.

The 43-year-old gave birth to baby Mira, short for miracle, in April after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Despite treatment, including a mastectomy, she has been told that the cancer has now spread to her liver and lungs.

Alexa just wanted to help

Alexa's dad Philip said because Carolyn's son Rudy, three, is in the nursery at YGG Rhosafan, Alexa decided she wanted to help.

"I'm also fundraising in different ways because I am in the music industry and she saw me doing stuff and wanted to donate her pumpkin. Alexa is like that anyway."

Philip said the pair, who enjoy gardening together on their allotment, have also given the rest of the crop of seven pumpkins away to Alexa's friends.

But they hope the largest of the lot will help to grow Carolyn's fund, called Curly Car's Cancer Fund, on gofundme, which currently stands at £32,000.

Carolyn has said that in the unlikely event she would get NHS funding for therapy drugs Kadcyla or Perjeta she would instead use the money raised to provide security for Rudy and Mira and also donate a large percentage to a charity called Mummy's Star, the only charity in the UK and Ireland dedicated to women and their families affected by cancer during pregnancy.

To bid for the pumpkin, email your bid to cwmafanmusic@gmail.com

The winner will be the highest bid received by midnight on Saturday, October 29. Prize to be collected from Cwmavon.