Potter auction funds tribute
A SET of signed Harry Potter books and a hand-written note by author JK Rowling made more than £8000 at auction to help fund a tribute to a bus crash victim.
Shona Macleod, 15, a school pupil at Keswick School in Cumbria, wrote to the world-famous author because she wanted to raise 950 for a bench in memory of 15-year-old Kieran Goulding, who was killed in a horrific crash on the A66 last May.
The set of books had been expected to make between 2000 and 4000.
The hand-written card from Edinburgh-based JK Rowling said: "I am so sorry to hear about Kieran. What a wonderful way to communicate with him."