A man who died after being left stranded in a coma in Prague was remembered at a moving ceremony in Bingley.

The family of Andrew Ross joined about 50 other bereaved relatives at a tree-planting at the historic garden at the St Ives Estate.

Mr Ross’s plight was featured in the Telegraph & Argus, his insurers UK General reconsidered his case and agreed to pay the £10,000 needed for an air ambulance.

But despite the 50-year-old starting to recover once back in Bradford, his condition deteriorated and he died in December last year.

On Saturday, Mr Ross’s widow Marina, son Mark and his wife Nicola and grand children Bailey and Chloe remembered him at the ceremony.

An apple tree was planted, in memory of the adults who died last year and a cherry tree was planted next to it to commemorate babies and children who died.

Mrs Ross, of Dunnington Way, Woodside, Bradford, said: “They read out everybody’s names and said a few words to express their sympathy for everyone. It was really beautiful.”

The trees were donated by Rose and Bill Kane, of Kane Family Funerals in Allerton, Bradford.

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