Father to fulfil his daughter's dream of coastal ride

THE father of a teenager who died with a friend when their car plunged into a Highland loch is to fulfil the journey she had planned by going on a 5,000-mile motorcycle charity ride around the coast of Britain.

John Bryden's daughter Kirsty, below, died when her car came off the A830 between Mallaig and Fort William and plunged into Loch Eilt last September. Emergency workers managed to get Kirsty, 19, and Roddy MacInnes, 21, out of the submerged vehicle, but both died.

Last month Kirsty's parents launched the Kirsty Bryden Memorial Trust to raise money for sick children. Before she died, Kirsty had planned to ride around Britain on a yellow motorcycle for charity - and now her father, a police officer, will embark on the journey in her memory on Friday to raise money for the trust.

A spokesman for the trust said: "After reflecting on Kirsty's life, John has decided to honour his daughter and her devotion in helping sick and terminally ill children and her dogmatic determination to raise money for 'her kids'.

"John is setting off from the family home at Lochailort to make the trip on his daughter's bike - big fat bloke on wee bike should be quite a sight."

For further details, you can visit www.kirstyskids.org