Cycle journey for meningitis girl

Lydia needs custom-made limbs

Air crew from a Cornish military base are to hold a 2,000-mile cycle ride to help raise money for a five-year-old girl who lost her legs to meningitis.

Lydia Cross, from Chivenor in north Devon, had to have her legs amputated beneath the knee in 2003.

She needs custom-made artificial limbs which are not available on the NHS.

The fund-raisers, from RNAS Culdrose, are cycling across Europe and hope to raise more than £15,000 to help buy prosthetic legs for Lydia.