BUILDERS at seven-year-old Lauren Self's house thought they were in heaven. Throughout the summer the little girl kept up a supply of cakes and sweets.

But unknown to the builders, Lauren was just practising on them.

When she thought that she had perfected the art of baking, she produced a mouth-watering range of fairy cakes, crispie cakes and fudge, invited all her friends and relatives round and raised £75 for charity.

Lauren, of Cambridge Road, Wigmore, near Gillingham, held the cake party for the Oliver Fisher Special Care Baby Unit at the Medway Maritime Hospital because she spent three and a half weeks there after being born six weeks premature, weighing 4 lbs 6 oz.

Lauren said: "I thought that it would be nice to raise money for the unit. Dr Jani from the unit ate one of my cakes and said that it was yummy. The builders said they were yummy too. I liked making the cakes but eating them is the bit I enjoy most."

Now Lauren is already planning her next big baking day: "I want to do it again at Christmas and try and raise even more money than I did this time."