A New York businessman has shipped 150 teddies to the UK to cheer up sick children in Oxfordshire.

Millionaire Joseph Sprung launched the Bears 4 Kids foundation for children across the United States.

Oxford Children's Hospital, at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington, is the first in the country to link up with the organisation. And on July 21, bears will be handed out to patients.

Pictured with some of the bears are, back, Emily Hodgkins, Sheila Cooper and Erica Watson, front, Ella Hughes, Penny Hambridge and Alison Pyrah.