Wellwishers round the world fill dying girl’s ‘bucket list’

The final wishes of a teenage girl with terminal cancer — to swim with sharks and enter her labrador in a dog show — look likely to be fulfilled after her online “bucket list” went viral.

Alice Pyne, 15, from Ulverston in Cumbria, started the blog after receiving news that her Hodgkin’s lymphoma had worsened and that she may not have long to live.

Alice, who has been treated for the condition for nearly four years, wrote of her disappointment: “It’s a pain because there’s so much stuff that I still want to do.”

Her mother suggested that she should draw up a “bucket list” of things she would like to do before she died, post it online and try to get help to do