Kirstie trophy for dream college

The grandmother of Shropshire teenager Kirstie Foster today revealed her memorial trophy would be presented at the college where the tragic youngster had dreamed of studying.

Enid Foster said the Riding for Disabled Championships in July would be held at Hartpury College, Gloucestershire - where 15-year-old Kirstie planned on following her dream after finishing at Ellesmere College.

Only a month before her death, Kirstie had told her grandmother how she wanted to study at the equestrian college once she had finished her GCSEs.

Mrs Foster said it proved a saying she had been once been told that "life has a pattern to it, if only we knew what it was".

She said Kirstie's pattern of life would now finally take her to the place where she wanted to study, when the family present the trophy in her name.

Breaking down in tears, Mrs Foster, today said: "In July she had been upstairs on her computer and came running down and said she had found out what she wanted to do. She wanted to go to the equestrian college in Gloucestershire.

"After the idea of presenting an annual trophy was mentioned, I couldn't believe it when they told me where it was being held. Kirstie will be there with us in spirit - the place she wanted to be."

Mrs Foster said the chaplain of Ellesmere College had sent £500 for the memorial fund and £530 had been given to RDA from Kirstie and Jill's funerals.