DAREDEVIL nine-year-old Frankie Cripsey will wow shoppers when she joins her dad on the wall of death on September 25.

Frankie first took to the wall at the Nottingham Goose Fair last year when she raised £500 for Children In Need.

This year she is hoping to top that total when she takes to the wall in Rawtenstall.

The Cripsey family will set up their thrilling stunt on the car park opposite Rawtenstall market next Friday and at 1pm on Saturday all viewers of Frankie's ride will be raising money for the appeal. On Sunday the wall of death will be one of the many attractions at Rossendale Valley Motorbike Show which is set to attract more than 30,000 people to the town.

Her mum Carol, who manages the family business based in Skegness, said: "She is like her dad. I wouldn't go on the bikes and neither would Frankie's sister, but she is a bit of an exhibitionist and she loves the buzz she gets from the crowd.

"She occasionally joins in one of the shows and when she is older she wants to learn to ride a bike herself, maybe when she is 14 or so."

The family is looking for a sponsor to enable them to take their display to the Daytona Bike Fest in America in March and they have written to Richard Branson asking for help.

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