Funeral convoy for 12-year-old girl who loved lorries

A 12-year-old girl who loved lorries was taken to her funeral in a convoy of more than 60 of the vehicles.

Daisy Bull died in December after being diagnosed with cancer in her kidney three years ago.

Hundreds of people stood by the side of roads in Retford in Nottinghamshire to pay their respects to Daisy.

Part of the seven-mile route went past Daisy's school, where the children applauded as Daisy's coffin and the convoy went past.

Daisy's mum, Sally Bull, said her daughter "was something else".

"She was a little bit different from your average 12-year-old," Mrs Bull said.

"She loved lorries and went everywhere with her dad in his lorry."

Daisy came from a family of lorry drivers, and her mum thinks she would have grown up to be a professional lorry driver too.

Daisy was originally diagnosed with a Wilms tumour, a type of kidney cancer found in children.

She had her kidney removed and chemotherapy, and was given the all-clear.

The cancer came back, but she was given the all-clear a second time after further chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

However, the cancer then spread to her chest wall, and she died on 21 December.

Nick Bull, Daisy's father, said she "fought so hard and won the first two battles but wasn't strong enough to win the war".

Daisy's coffin was on the back of a green and white Scania 730, driven by her dad, who runs a haulage company.

Daisy's uncle drove the lorry behind, and her cousin drove another lorry.

Mrs Bull said the funeral convoy was "very different but very nice".

"We are a massive lorry family with crazy lorry friends," she said.

"We asked if anyone would like to join us and it's escalated and escalated."

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