Beatles star donates album for bombing victims

Sir Paul Mccartney has donated an album to raise funds for the families of a Scottish teenager who died and her friend who was injured in the Manchester bombing attack.

Barra student Eilidh Macleod, 14, was killed while her friend Laura Macintyre, 15, was seriously injured following the attack after the Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.

Soon after the tragedy, Sir Paul donated a special Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band six-disc super deluxe 50th anniversary edition boxset, which will be auctioned to raise funds for the two families.

The former Beatles singer has agreed to personally dedicate and personalise the boxset of the Beatles album to the successful bidder.

The auction will take place in the run-up of the 40th anniversary of one of Sir Paul’s Wings songs, Mull of Kintyre, that reached number one at Christmas in 1977.

His gesture has been described as “amazing and brilliant” by the girls’ parents.

Both students went to Castlebay Community School in the Outer Hebrides.

Ms Macleod was one of 22 people who died in the bombing at Manchester Arena.