More than £1,800 was raised at a charity fashion show in memory of a popular Penrith mum.

Susan Hebson was also well known in Carlisle where she ran the city's former Jaeger store.

She died of a brain tumour in November 2015, aged 58, just five months after being diagnosed.

Friends and family have since rallied round to raise more than £21,000 in her memory to improve brain tumour research.

The latest event was a fashion show at Roundthorn Country House on October 13.

Gwyn Jones, one of the organisers, said: "We had a brilliant Fashion Show and raised £1828 on the night, although there is more to come due to commission on sales.

"We had brilliant support from local businesses and couldn't have done this without them."

As the 12 month anniversary of Susan's death approaches, the year-long fundraising campaign is drawing to a close.

However friends and family are pulling out all the stops for one final event to take place on Sunday, November 6.

The charity auction will be held at The Warehouse in Penrith, with doors opening at 1.30pm.

It will be a family event with children's facepainting and entertainment. Admission is £2 for adults, with children free.

Organisers now have a growing list of about 70 confirmed lots that will be going under the hammer.

Items, being sold by Penrith auctioneer Thom Sarjeant, include a signed Manchester United football.

All money raised will go to Susan’s Fund for Brain Tumour Research, to help prevent other deaths.

Susan, of Croft Terrace, Penrith, was the wife of John, a former director of car dealership Harper and Hebson.

The couple have two grown- up children, Jodi and Robbie.

Susan had no obvious symptoms, though she had twice been to the doctor with what she described as a “strange tickling feeling” in her ear. But it wasn’t until she suffered a seizure that she was diagnosed with an aggressive tumour called a glioblastoma.

Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of UK children, and more people under 40 die of a brain tumour than from any other cancer. Yet research is underfunded compared to other cancers.

Susan’s friends and family wanted to help change that, prompting them to set up the fudraising campaign.

*For more pictures see the November issue of Carlisle Living, published October 27