A HAMPSHIRE firm has done its bit to help in the fight against leukaemia.

Staff at Southampton-based Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency, have designed and printed the latest newsletter of city charity Leukaemia Busters.

The agency has also produced several thousand copies of Leukaemia Busters' Purbeck Odyssey sponsored walks brochure and is designing a new version of the charity's main brochure.

From design to print, Ordnance Survey's support amounts to a contribution of thousands of pounds, freeing up more of the charity's funds to go directly towards national clinical trials of new treatments.

Dr David Flavell, honorary scientific director of Leukaemia Busters, said: "Ordnance Survey have always been tremendous supporters of our work and have helped design and print our newsletters and brochures in the past.

"We're eternally grateful to them for their commitment to our campaign to find a cure for this terrible disease."

Ordnance Survey's corporate communications manager, Ann Bryon, said: "We are proud to support the work of Leukaemia Busters by ensuring that the production of this newsletter costs the charity nothing.