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Everton donation to cancer boy 'amazing'

The mother of a five-year-old boy who is fighting cancer has thanked a football club for donating £200,000 to help him get treatment.

Bradley Lowery, from Blackhall Colliery, near Hartlepool, was a guest of honour at Sunderland's Premier League game against Everton on Monday.

After the game, Everton donated £200,000 to a campaign raising funds to send him to America for treatment.

His mother Gemma said it felt like the family had won the lottery.

She told BBC Tees: "It's amazing, not in a million years did we think that would happen.