ALLAN and Angela Lloyd began 2014 knowing their nine year fight had secured a radiotherapy centre for Hereford County Hospital.

They end the year mourning their younger daughter who died at the County days before Christmas.

The funeral service for Katy Shrimpton is set for St Mary's Church, Kington, on New Year's Eve, followed by a cremation in Hereford.

Her family will provide the pallbearers, her sister will play the flute, her brother will read a poem and Allan the eulogy.

Katy suffered a severe brain haemorrhage at her home in Tenbury Wells on December 17.

She died in the County's Redbrook ward two days later with her family at the bedside and  her sister's flute playing out to the end.

Little more than a fortnight had passed since, as reported by the Hereford Times, Allan and Angela had been at the County to open the £8 million radiotherapy centre they had fought the nine years of their "Cut the Misery Miles" campaign for.

Katy, 50, grew up in Kington and went to Lady Hawkins School.

There Katy  was part of something unique as she, her sister, and three brothers were all students at the same time as their father was a teacher.

As a mature student she took a law degree at the University of Birmingham.

Throughout the part-time course she raised a family and worked full-time as medical secretary to Tenbury GP practice.

At the time of her death Katy was working with a firm of solicitors in Worcester.

She leaves a husband and three children.