A Former soldier who lost his leg in a car accident last horror is to raise funds for a member of hi-tech so he can dance with his daughter again.
Yorke Greig, 39, who served in the Royal Engineers for 10 years, lost his left leg after being hit by a car.
Now the father-of-two Carnoustie, Angus, is to raise £ 15,000 for a special flexible leg so he can dance with his youngest daughter, Lily.
Greig said: "I want to be able to dance with my four year old, Lily.
"We always used to dance at home and go to the trampoline together and I want to do it again.
"I'll have a prosthetic leg NHS, but he will not let me continue everything I did before, like biking and snowboarding."
The horror crash happened at an intersection between Arbroath and Carnoustie last month.
He is now on the road to recovery and is launching its "standing by Greig" appeal to raise money.
Greig, said a member of NHS provision would not give you the flexibility of being able to play with her daughters Lily, four, and Jaimee, 13.
He is determined to go to a private clinic for a hi-tech leg to maintain their quality of life.
Greig is organizing a fundrasing "horse riding" on the Tay Bridge in his wheelchair, supported by friends and family on bikes, scooters and anything else with wheels.
He says that the prosthesis would give a new lease of life, especially as he continues his battle with post-traumatic stress caused by a tour of duty in Bosnia in 1995, when his unit discovered a mass grave.
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