ALTON Towers crash victim Leah Washington has handed over a cheque for £400 to the Midlands Air Ambulance raised at her former primary school where she now works.

Leah, 19, started volunteering at Summer Lane Primary and following the crash last year on the Smiler ride in which she lost her leg, the school council decided to focus the school’s fund-raising efforts on the air ambulance which had helped her.

School business manager Ann Youell said: “Leah was not only one of our previous pupils but had also been coming into school voluntarily due to her wish to working in a primary school in the future and had become a very regular visitor and a dear friend to the school.”

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