Store bosses have relented to let breast screening sessions take place an extra day a week.

The Sussex Cancer Network has been given permission to use the Tesco car park in Lewes four days a week instead of three.

The Argus reported earlier this month that health workers wanted to use the site from Monday to Friday but had to settle for Monday to Wednesday instead.

Tesco said the car park was small and was especially busy on Thursdays and Fridays.

It had originally refused to let a mobile unit be set up in the car park at all but agreed to a compromise.

Women given an appointment date for a Friday will still have to travel 15 miles to Sussex House in Brighton but the extra day in Lewes will help lower the number.

Screening co-ordinator Linda Garvican thanked The Argus for highlighting the problem.

She said: "This will make a big difference. The store manager has also arranged for the radiographers to park in the staff area, which will save space in the public one for customers and women being screened."

The network intends to screen 4,000 women from the area between May and July and usually carries out up to 70 screenings a day.

Mobile units on community sites are used because the service wants to do screenings close to where women live.

If it is easy to get to the unit, then women are more likely to keep their appointment.

Tesco said it supported the work being done by the breast screening initiative and had done what it could to help meet its demands while meeting the demands of customers as well.

Tuesday April 22 2003