A Keighley woman fighting cancer gave her young child some spectacular memories before she died.

Kirsty Deakin and husband Steven took daughter Abby to Disneyland Paris where the four-year-old was given the princess treatment.

Kirsty, who died earlier this month, also wrote a 36-page memoir while she was being cared for at the Manorlands hospice at Oxenhope.

Steven will transform the pages – which detail Kirsty's life – into a glossy book for Abby to read when she is older.

Kirsty had been fighting cervical cancer after being diagnosed early last year.

More than 300 people attended 25-year-old Kirsty's funeral service at Keighley Shared Church and donated more than £1,300 to Manorlands.

Steven said the high attendance was a tribute to the effect Kirsty had on people as soon as they met her.

He said: “She was quite an incredible woman. If you met Kirsty once, you were stuck with her!

“She never moaned once while she was ill. People would be really worried about her, and she was asking how they were.”

Steven said the family travelled to Disneyland Paris on the Eurostar train and spent five days in the popular resort’s palace-themed hotel.

He said: “It was just brilliant – we did everything we wanted to. Abby did the princess makeover for a day and we had dinner with the princesses.

“It was really nice. We were really happy we did the trip.”

Steven said that Kirsty wrote the story of her life while she was staying in the Manorlands hospice, and that her original letter to Abby turned into a 36-page memoir. Steven paid tribute to Manorlands staff, who arranged for an Eddie Stobart lorry to visit the hospice after they heard about Kirsty's interest in the firm.

The Keighley News last November told how former workmates of Kirsty had made her “double dream” come true.

Staff at Keighley jewellers Herbert Brown raised more than £5,000 to send Kirsty, Steven and Abby to Disneyland Paris. The trip also served as a honeymoon after the couple brought forward their wedding on hearing of Kirsty's illness.

Kirsty, nee Ridehalgh, who had lived in Glusburn, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in February last year after suffering two years of abnormal bleeding.