AN Adver story about nine-month-old Emme Read’s desperate need for a nebuliser has ended in happiness thanks to a charity which read of her plight and came to the rescue.

Dave Penman, founder of Swindon-based group Asthma Relief, was so touched by the story in the paper he arranged to buy the £600 piece of potentially life-saving equipment for Emme to aid her daily cystic fibrosis medication and clear her lungs.

The youngster was borrowing a second-hand nebuliser from a friend as the Great Western Hospital did not have the funds to provide one.

Her overwhelmed mum Carly Read, 33, who lives in West Swindon and also has a seven-year-old son called Hayden, said: “I am overwhelmed by the generosity of the charity and can’t thank them enough.

“People are so kind and you don’t realise this until you need it and that the help is out there.”

Dave started the charity, which runs out of the Shaftesbury Centre in Rodbourne, 20 years ago after he was forced to quit his engineering job following a heart attack. His brother Bill died aged 28 from asthma.

The 74-year-old Pinehurst resident, who donates around 1,000 nebulisers every year said: “It’s what we do, we donate nebulisers all over the country from Inverness to Truro. The one we have bought for Emme is from Germany and made especially for babies.”

The funds came from an 80-year-old woman who asked for donations to the charity instead of presents for her birthday, while an additional £200 came from Asda shoppers popping their green tokens in the charity’s box in-store.

Patricia Davis, 48, also from Asthma Relief, added: “We saw the story and there is no way we wouldn’t have not tried to help her.”

Mum Carly is now making it her mission to raise more awareness about cystic fibrosis.

“It’s life-changing,” she said, adding her world was rocked when newborn Emme was whisked away and put into intensive care.

Eme spent weeks in a Bristol hospital before it was confirmed she had the genetic condition.

Carly is also organising a charity clothes swap at Toothill Church on Thursday, November 24 from 10am to raise money to buy nebulisers for Great Western Hospital. The church is giving half of its profits for the Christmas period towards the cause.

Carly added: “Emme is my inspiration and I’m in awe of her happiness.”