IN CROWD man Steve "Frost" Rothwell is finally returning to Leigh.

The ashes of the disabled 60s music man should have been scattered in his home town a fortnight ago, but the ceremony had to be postponed.

MS sufferer Frost died, aged 51, on October 3 in a Portsmouth hospital. He had suffered two heart attacks in as many weeks.

Butts Bridger Frost, from Highfield Avenue, was one of the first long-haired youths in town and a leading light in the teenage Leigh scene of the mid 1960s.

He later packed his guitar and travelled around France but the wandering minstrel returned and began caring for MS sufferers in a Hampshire nursing home. Tragically he found he had the disease himself.

His friends Tony Owens and Norman Wilcock summed him up as a "rebel" who "lived life to the full".

He leaves a wife, Gina, who also suffers from MS, a daughter, Samantha, and a grandson.

Family and friends are keen to trace Frost's best pal from his Manchester Road School days - Ronnie Hampson - in time for Saturday's rerranged short remembrance service in Christ Church, Pennington (2pm). His ashes will be scattered after the ceremony.

Gina has asked for donations, rather than flowers, for a suitable MS charity, and a collection will be taken at the service.

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