FAMILY and friends will take part in a charity walk in memory of a Dunfermline dad who lost his life to an undiagnosed brain tumour.

Mark Richardson, who had a cancerous lump the size of a golf ball, passed away at the age of just 32 in May, 2016.

He died suddenly after his wife, Shona, found him collapsed at their Dunfermline home.

She said: "Mark suffered from extreme tiredness but we just put this down to a demanding full time job and two infants who liked to share our bed.

"Mark did also suffer from neck pain and had a bleed on his left eye, prior to his death, but nothing was found even following an eye test.

"Since June 2017, I have put on hold working at Lloyds Bank and have been working with The Brain Tumour Charity as a Community Fundraiser Intern, where I am doing what I can to support people affected by this terrible illness and helping to raise much needed funding and awareness. I don’t want others to be affected like we have."

Mark worked for Diageo and Shona, friends and colleagues recently held a charity dinner and auction, raising £62,000 for the charity.

The total raised in his memory now stands at £80,000 following a series of fundraising events, including a charity climb up Ben Nevis taken on by 30 of Mark’s family and friends in September last year.

Shona has now organised a charity walk on October 15 and 22, to support others affected by brain tumours.

She will be accompanied by her sons and they will walk around Loch Leven from 1pm as they aim to bring together families and help raise money to help fight the disease.

The walk will follow three twilight walks led by The Brain Tumour Charity in Chester, Warwick and Windsor.

More than 50 friends, family and children will walk varying distances from 2.5km to 20km around the loch.

Shona said: "I thought this would be a fantastic opportunity to show our solidarity and support for those affected by brain tumours by bringing the spirit of The Twilight Walk to Scotland. We are determined to raise money for research into brain tumours that we all know is so badly needed.

"When we lost Mark last year we were all shocked to learn that this was due to a brain tumour. This has left our families devastated and our two sons growing up without their dad.

"Due to us not being aware of the symptoms of brain tumours, this went undiagnosed."

Geraldine Pipping, the charity’s head of fundraising, said: "Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children and the under-40s in the UK and survival rates have not improved significantly over the last 40 years.

We are leading the way in changing this and are almost half way through our ambitious five-year strategy, Defeating Brain Tumours, which aims to double survival and halve the harm caused by brain tumours."

Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Alexander Stewart will also join the walk on October 22.

He said: "I was very touched by Shona’s story and am grateful to her for inviting me along to the Twilight Walk for what will be a very special event.

"I am absolutely delighted to assist Shona and indeed all the fundraisers, volunteers and employees of The Brain Tumour Charity in any way that I can.

"It’s fantastic that so many people are getting behind this fundraising event with the focus of delivering better outcomes for all brain tumour patients going forward."

To join Shona and her Fife Twilight Walkers, visit: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/shona-richardson75.