Arsenal footballer Ashley Cole's sports car is among items donated by the Gunners to an auction in aid of the Marc Fisher Trust a cancer charity formed after the death of an Edgware man.

Passionate Arsenal fan Marc Fisher died in 1995, aged 28, of non-hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer which numbers Arsenal star David Rocastle and former Edgware & Mill Hill Times reporter Paul Morris among its victims.

Now Ashley Cole is donating his black Audi TT, with personalised number plates (C3 ASH) and 16,000 miles on the clock, for the auction at the charity's May Ball.

The event takes place on May 10 at the Inter-Continental Hotel, Hyde Park, to raise funds for research into a vaccine for the disease. Other items on offer include a France football shirt worn and signed by midfielder Patrick Vieira, a signed Arsenal shirt from striker Thierry Henry and a pair of David Seaman's goalkeeping gloves.

Telephone bids can be made now on 020 8906 4293 and 020 8959 5867, between 10am and 4pm, Monday to Friday, and 1pm and 5pm at weekends. For details visit http://www.marcfishertrust.org.uk or call 020 8959 3345.

April 30, 2003 19:00