Special painted stones will be hidden in Dorset as a mother who lost a daughter to childhood cancer raises awareness of the disease.

Isla Tansey passed away in July 2018, aged seven, after suffering from a rare and aggressive brain tumour called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glicoma (DIPG).

It was first discovered after Isla woke one morning in August 2017 unable to walk properly.

Isla was paralysed from the waist down, and surgeons later had to open her spine and take out the tumour.

There is no effective treatment and a zero per cent survival rate for the disease, but Isla still kept smiling and started a campaign to raise awareness of childhood cancers.

As part of the awareness campaign, Isla decorated stones and gave them to her friends to hide. There are now over 75,000 members from all around the world on her Facebook page #islastones, who are all decorating and hiding stones.

Stones have been hidden in places across the globe including the Taj Mahal, New Zealand and even Antarctica.

Now, they will come to Dorset when Isla's mother Katherine visits Weymouth with the rest of her family.

She said: "Isla has brought many smiles and communities together.

"The group was set up from her bedroom in Hinckley and is basically a giant game of hiding and finding stones. She has stones all around the world and we as a family have carried on raising awareness of this awful disease and other childhood cancer.

"We are fundraising for research and have raised over £60,000 of the £73,000 needed.

"We are coming to Dorset next week for a few days break and will be hiding one extra special stone somewhere on our travels. We will be hiding stones throughout Weymouth and Dorset and near the White Horse."

According to the Facebook page, there are #islastones in 155 countries around the world.

Anyone who finds an #islastone is encouraged to share their discovery on the Facebook page, before re-hiding the stone for someone else to find.