Family and friends are being asked to remember teacher Simon Small by helping to provide his Thai widow and baby daughter with a secure future.

The 31-year-old, who grew up in Bradford, was killed in a motorbike accident at the Thai beach resort of Pattaya where he had lived for two years.

Mr Small, a former Nab Wood Grammar School student who taught English at Pattaya's International School, leaves his wife Phai, whom he only married last April, and their five-month-old daughter Jade.

He had hoped to move his family to Bradford, where he owned a house, over the next year.

Today, his mother Sue Long, of Baildon, said she still hopes her 24-year-old daughter-in-law, whom her son met while on holiday in Bangkok in 1999, and her granddaughter will be able to move to this country.

Mr Small was cremated during a Buddhist funeral service in Thailand but a memorial service and interment is to be held at Nab Wood Crematorium at 2pm tomorrow.

Mrs Long, who brought her son's ashes back to Britain, is asking friends and family attending the service to consider making a donation in lieu of flowers to an account she is setting up for his young family.

She said: "We're not anticipating any problems getting Phai and Jade, who's got a British passport, over here but it could take several months to sort out.

"Phai is not working, there is no welfare for them over there and although there will be some insurance money it won't be very much.

"Their welfare is our primary concern now and we want to make sure they are financially secure while they are still over there.

"Having some money behind them should make it easier for them to get here and give them a nice start to their new lives in England.''

Mrs Long added that the Confederation of British Wool Textiles in Bradford, where her son worked as a training officer after taking a degree at Bradford College, had offered to make a donation in his memory.

Tomorrow's memorial service is set to feature some of Mr Small's favourite music - including the Smokey Robinson classic Tracks of My Tears and the Formula 1 TV theme tune - as well as readings from tribute letters written by some of the seven and eight-year-olds he taught in Pattaya.