An emotional grandad says an Ayrshire tot’s cancer battle brought him to tears as he vowed to raise funds to help save her life.
Jerry Helley is on course to completing a 200 mile trek for Ava Bolton, who is undergoing treatment for high-risk neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer which has a 50 per cent survival rate.
The 60-year-old from Saltcoats has put his best foot forward by walking from Kilmarnock to Castle Douglas, through the Galloway Forrest, before heading along the Ayrshire coast back home.