A TEENAGER is raising money for the helicopter heroes who have helped her five times in the last two years.

Libby Waterton, 14 and from Pickering, is organising a day of everyone wearing yellow - the colour of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance - at Lady Lumley's and St Joseph's, her current and former schools, on April 27.

She has suffered with anaphylactic shocks since the age of two but in recent years it has got worse and she has had more than 150 of them.

Anaphylaxis is a severe reaction to an allergen, which in Libby's case can happen at any time, without warning and without eating food or having medication.

Over the past two years, she has needed life-saving helicopter transport five times to Middlesbrough's James Cook, York and Scarborough hospitals.

"The YAA can give me the medication I need and get me to hospital a lot quicker," she said. "I think it’s important that people know about them and that’s why I wanted to fundraise for them to say thank you."

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