#IslaStones dies aged 7

Inspiration Isla Tansey from Hinckley had a rare tumour on the brain.

Seven year old Isla Tansey who inspired the region with her #IslaStones campaign has died. 

The announcement came on her social media channels on Wednesday: 

"It is with with heavy hearts and the deepest sadness that our beautiful princess Isla has passed away peacefully yesterday evening. We are all devastated."

Isla suffered from a rare form of brain cancer. She woke up in August 2017 unable to walk, after many horrible treatments, surgery and radiotherapy, Isla was diagnosed as having a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma DIPG. 

Her campaign saw hundreds of people decorate and hide stones to spread joy and awareness. 

Isla has now more than 40,000 members from all around the world on her Facebook page #islastones who are decorating and hiding stones. Stones have been hidden across the world including the Taj Mahal, New Zealand and a very special stone in Antartica. 

Isla’s family want to share and raise awareness of childhood cancer as there is very little funding into this area of research. DIPG has a 0% survival rate, only 10% of children survive 2 years following their diagnosis and less than 1% survive for 5 years, the average survival is 9 months from diagnosis.

You can also follow #Islastones on Instagram and Twitter