Proud mum Jane McCabe fulfilled the greatest wish of her late daughter yesterday.

Jane made an emotional pilgrimage from London to Brighton in memory of 21-year-old Natalie, also known as Flo, who died last October in Hove.

Nursery nurse Natalie desperately wanted to take part in a Mini rally from the capital to the coast. But she died when the car she was travelling in crashed at 70mph.

Despite the heartache, Jane, of Ravensbourne Road, Shoreham, vowed to take part in the run with her son Graham, 25, to raise money for her daughter's favourite charity.

She said: "She had always wanted to do the run. She passed her test in May last year but she was too late to enter. This was going to be the year she did it, her project for this year."

The McCabes joined more than 2,000 other Minis which made the trip from Crystal Palace to Brighton.

Jane expects to raise more than £1,000 for the NSPCC, a charity close to Natalie's heart.

She said: "She was a nursery nurse and her great love was children. The NSPCC ran an advertising campaign a couple of years ago which was really quite moving and Natalie latched onto it."

After arriving in Madeira Drive following the 50-mile drive, Jane said: "It was an emotional journey. It's very sad she can't be here with us but the weather has helped make the day a bit more cheerful."

Graham Travers, 21, a barman, of Shelldale Road, Portslade, was over the drink-drive limit and had no insurance or licence when he crashed a car in Portland Road.

His three passengers, including Natalie, were thrown from the vehicle.

Victoria Browne, 19, from Brighton, was also killed while the third casualty, Becky Fish, 20, from Mile Oak, lost a leg.

Travers was jailed for five-and-a-half years for causing the deaths.