IF you're a fan of sandwiches there's an event just for you.

Man versus Sub is a bid by an Eastleigh eatery to prove just who is Hampshire's hungriest hero.

The event on August 25 will pitch teams against each other to see who can finish the most out of a six foot long Subway sandwich in one hour.

But the contest is also a bid to raise cash for a poorly little girl.

Elora Jones has had five operations, stayed in seven hospitals and had six weeks of radiotherapy - all despite the fact that she is only two and a half years old.

Diagnosed with a brain tumour on her first birthday she is now paralysed down one side of her body, can't swallow and needs 24 hour care from mum and dad Lisa-Marie and Fred Jones.

But the little toddler is "strong-willed" and is already learning sign language.

Dad Fred said: "She knows exactly what she wants. It has been very difficult. At the moment we have five nights' care but for the other two nights Lisa and I need to be with her. So it means I can't work.

"It's been very tough."

Now manager and franchisee Jodi Law of Subway on Market Street in Eastleigh has organised the Man V Sub event in a bid to raise cash to help Elora and her family.

It's the second fundraiser Jodi has put on for her pals - who live in Aldershot.

She said: "The money you make for big charities goes on staff wages and I'm against that. I wanted to find individual families to help.

"My partner has grown up with Fred and we just wanted to do whatever we can to help.

"We are going to have a marquee on Well's Place on August 25. I've had a trophy made for the winner.

"It's the shop's fifth birthday as well so it's nice to celebrate the fact that we are still here as well as raise money for charity.

"The sandwich is six feet in length - and very wide and very tall. No one in the UK has ever completed it before.

"At 3pm the teams will take their places then they have one hour in which to consume as much of the sandwich as is humanly possible."

Any food which isn't used will go to Two Saints homeless charity after the event.