Photographs of the Lake District - a region loved by Jo Hatton, the longest lived heart and lung transplant patient until she died this summer - are to be sold by her husband to raise cash towards her memorial fund.

Phil Hatton, 54, and Jo, who died aged 45, spent much of their holiday time in the Lake District and Phil, a keen photographer, took hundreds of pictures of the landscape.

"Jo loved the Lake District and we spent a lot of time there. I took pictures of us both, but also a lot of photographs of the landscape we enjoyed," said Phil.

He has framed and mounted 50 of his favourite locations for sale at £25 each at Bingley market on Saturday, December 12. The cash will go towards the Jo Hatton Memorial Fund.

The fund was launched on Sunday, November 16 when about 20 transplant patients and their families from throughout the north gathered at Jo's home in Oakworth Road, Keighley.

The fund is to pay for a worker to support transplant patients, those awaiting treatment and their relatives.

Phil said it was hoped to organise a number of fund-raising events throughout the year and he called on other groups and individuals to support the campaign.

The fund will be linked to the Transplant Support Network set up by Phil and Jo more than three years ago. It was while working with a group of network members in the summer that Jo died 13 years after undergoing a heart and lung transplant.

The network has more than 80 supporters country-wide and had given support to more than 200 families.

A former journalist, Jo was born with a heart defect which cut short her career.

But following surgery about 13 years ago, she took up athletics, competing in the Transplant Games, and writing, completing her autobiography, Future Conditional, which described her life struggling against the medical odds.

She also enjoyed walking in the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and abroad.

Anyone wishing to donate to the fund or get more information should write to the Transplant Support Network, KVS 135 Skipton Road, Keighley, BD21 3AV or call 01535 210101.

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