Brave young nurse with cancer travels to Scotland to complete bucket list before dying

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A brave young nurse with terminal cancer has seen her lifelong dream of visiting Scotland come true as she completes her bucket list before she dies.

Eleanor McCleave, from a small town in western Australia called Esperance, says Scotland "is like something from a storybook" after she spent an incredible four days exploring the country.

The 26-year-old has always planned to travel across since family friend Iain McLeod's vivid tales of his hometown on the Isle of Skye when she was a youngster.Eleanor was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of brain cancer in November 2020 and in April this year she was given the devastating news that a tumour had appeared in her heart.

With success rates of further chemotherapy very low, the nurse decided not to go through with more treatment - and instead spend her final six months ticking off everything she has always wanted to do from her bucket list.After a fundraiser launched to help Eleanor do just that quickly reached over £40,000, her family were able to organise her dream trip - and she made the journey across to Scotland last week.Eleanor told the Record: "Iain and his family were the first that my parents met when they moved to Esperance and he is from Skye, so I grew up listening to fairy stories about Skye from him.