A BALLET performance which would have starred tragic five-year-old Abigail Emma Guy is due to go ahead as a memorial to the little angel who was loved by everyone.

Abigail, daughter of Graham and Jo Guy, died on Wednesday after a collision with the rear wheels of a slurry tanker and tractor at her father's farm, Shaygate, Skipton Old Road, Colne.

She had been playing hide and seek with her nine-year-old sister Laura and two cousins when the accident happened. The vehicle was being driven by a 19-year-old farm worker. Police are treating the incident as a "tragic accident."

Her father said: "Abigail was a happy, noisy little girl who lived life to the full. Everyone who met her instantly fell in love with her. She was a little character." Abigail attended Laneshawbridge Primary School, Laneshawbridge, and the Sanderson School of Dancing, Nelson, under instructor Lynn McCheyne.

Miss McCheyne's students will stage a show at Burnley Mechanics on September 4.

She said: "Abigail was to perform a ballet dance with two other girls. They had been rehearsing for six months. "Her mum rang me and said she would still like us to go ahead with the performance but to do the piece in memory of her daughter. We will probably dedicate the show to her memory.

"She was a like a little angel with white hair and pale skin. I am so upset." Abigail's school teacher, Diana Smith, said: "She was a lovely little girl. Of all the children who started last year she was the pivotal child.

"They all wanted her to be their friend. She was never sulky, there were no rough corners to her, and she was very bright."

Mrs Smith said teachers would talk to all the pupils about the tragedy when they return to classes on Tuesday.

Abigail's father used to be a councillor with Laneshawbridge Parish Council. He was separated from her mother Jo 18 months ago and the girls lived with their mother in Foulridge. Laura is also a pupil at the Laneshawbridge school. Graham runs the 120-acre cattle and sheep farm with his father Clarence. Abigail's grandparents also farm in the village.

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