PICKING up where she left off, a PR boss will walk another 128 miles for Great Ormond Street Hospital whose doctors once saved her daughter's life.

Last year Hilary Collins trekked the entire length of the Cornish coastal path and raised more than £3,000 for the hospital birthmark unit's laser appeal.

Now she is stepping up to a further challenge as GOSH still needs £16,000 to afford specialist new lasers.

She said: “The majority of lasers at Great Ormond Street have been fundraised due to financial pressures on the NHS.

"If someone hadn’t raised all the funds for the lasers required to save my daughter Ciara’s life, our lives would be very different right now so I’m determined to do all I can to help get the funds Great Ormond Street needs.”

Ciara Collins-Allen, 12, has been under the hospital's care since a baby.

Mum Hilary explained: "Lots of children are born with birthmarks.

"Unfortunately for Ciara, she was born with rapidly-growing marks on her face, one in her throat and it is expected she has at least one on her lungs.

"She was my first-born child and it wasn’t what we’d been expecting.

"Ciara was referred to Great Ormond Street Hospital as she was struggling to breathe.

"She underwent a life-saving operation, which didn’t go quite to plan, but after a few days in intensive care she pulled through and we were able to take our daughter home.”

The managing director of Big Wave PR in Colchester, will walk from Plymouth to Seaton for this mammoth journey which is very close to her heart.

Each day 618 children and young people from across the UK arrive at GOSH and doctors battle against the most complex illnesses.

To support Hilary, click here or follow her journey on Instagram @MumsJourneyofThankstoGOSH.