Memorial collection

A FUNERAL service for a Fife woman who died following a car crash last month is to raise money for the air ambulance paramedics who battled to save her.

Heather Summers, 73, from Markinch, died the morning after the threecar accident on the A911 Glenrothes to Leven road on Saturday January 26.

Tributes have been paid on social media to the mother and gran to seven grandchildren.

Friends and family will get the chance to pay their respects at Kirkcaldy Crematorium on Wednesday afternoon.

Donations to Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance will be taken on leaving the service in Mrs Summers’ memory. THE family members of a blind pensioner who has paid thousands of pounds in so-called shower tax are demanding their money back.

Hundreds of readers have been in touch since the Tele launched its campaign demanding an end to the controversial charge.

Last week the Tele revealed that Charlotte Myles, 90, had a shower fitted at her home in Dryburgh at the request of her occupational therapist in 2010. Her grandson David said she has been charged £10 per week since its installation, and estimated she had paid out at least £4,000 in that time.

In response, Dundee City Council leader John Alexander said the charge did not apply to those with health problems who had the showers fitted through occupational therapy services. David has said he is planning to seek legal advice to claim the money back.