Grateful biker raising brass

HELEN French and her friends in a brass band will be playing from the heart at a concert in Boston Stump next Friday.

Cornet player Helen, 16, is still recovering from a motorbike

accident in which she was badly injured six months ago.

She spent a couple of months in a wheelchair and this week she was delighted to have reached the stage where she could at last switch to walking sticks instead of crutches.