The mother of a Telford girl who died suddenly while on a family holiday has thanked the public for raising thousands of pound for charity.

Eleven-year-old Layla Pitt, of Ivatt Close, Dawley, Telford, collapsed while shopping with her parents Tristan and Rachel, and sister Liberty, nine, and brother Alfie, five, in Porthmadog, in August last year.

She died from a brain haemorrhage in hospital the next day. As Layla would have turned 13 last week, Mrs Pitt today sent out a thank you to the public for donating thousands for The Layla Jane Pitt Remembrance Fund, which has supported Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool and Hope House Children’s Hospices.

She said: “The fund has also been set up to support children in performing arts as well as offering support to other bereaved families.

“Layla was a happy, healthy and incredibly beautiful little girl, was the kindest, most caring of children who was modest about her wonderful talent for singing, playing the flute and a number of dance disciplines. When she died 15 months ago we didn’t know what to do. We were all just in a daze and people were offering to give money to something, so we set up the fund.

“Layla would have been 13 now and would have celebrated her birthday with her sister Liberty, who was nine on Wednesday. They always shared their birthdays.

“We are looking at getting a new music room at Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge Primary School.”