I WANT readers to join me and a host of celebrity friends in raising £1,000 each for the research charity, Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

Already, friends including Emma Bunton, Barbara Windsor, Vanessa Feltz, Ian McCaskill, Julia Carling, Lisa Riley, Lorraine Kelly and Chris Eubank have raised £1,000 or more for Breakthrough, and have made a New Year's resolution to continue their support of the charity into 2001.

For every £1,000 raised by readers in our Breakthrough Challenge campaign, our sponsor, Kodak, has pledged to give an extra £100 to Breakthrough! And everyone who reaches their target -- it doesn't matter how long it takes -- will have their name included on a Challenger's wall within Breakthrough's research centre -- the first in the UK dedicated exclusively to breast cancer.

For details call 020 7557 6611.

GABY ROSLIN, Patron, Breakthrough Breast Cancer £1,000 Challenge, Kingsway, London WC2.