STUDENT Lydia Airey is to run on Saturday in memory of her mother who died earlier this year just months after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Miss Airey, 23, of Eyles Road, Devizes, and her stepfather Jim McAillister will take part in the Malmesbury 10K to raise money for Brain Tumour Research.

The pairs were left heartbroken in April when Helen McCallister died aged 50 just months after she started feeling unwell.

Miss Airey, a former pupil of St Augustine's in Trowbridge, has had to take time out from her degree studying fashion design.

She said: "Her writing, her memory, her sight, her mobility all decreased which meant for me personally I lost a little bit of my Mummy not just on the 1st of April but whilst she was unwell.

"I had no prior knowledge of how brain cancer can affect people but it takes away all of someone's faculties in terminal cases like my Mums, which just isn't fair."

Miss Airey and her stepfather, who is a sergeant major in the Royal Irish Regiment based in Warminster, have been training for the run.

She said: "It will be easy for him but much more difficult for me but I am hoping to complete the run in under 50 minutes."

She hopes the pair will evntually raise £2,740 which is the equivalent to one day's brain tumour research. Her target from the run is £500.

To sponsor her go to www.justgiving.com/lydiaairey