West Lothian community rally to give teen battling cancer a birthday to remember

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A Livingston teen undergoing gruelling chemo for aggressive cancer was blown away after her local community threw her a surprise birthday party with motorbike parade.Ellie Beattie, 17, lives at home with her mum, dad Roy and two big sisters Rachel and Kylie and was diagnosed with metastatic pineoblastoma, an aggressive brain tumour, at 12.Treatment was going well until a scan last year showed new tumours.After remaining stable for three years the family got the heartbreaking news Ellie’s condition had deteriorated and they moved to palliative care.To celebrate the schoolgirl’s 17th birthday, the West Lothian community rallied together to throw a huge surprise party that gave Ellie the chance to be a normal teenager for the day.Speaking to our sister website, Edinburgh Live, mum Elaine said: “Our Morrisons community champion Fiona Hendry was talking with a customer called Stevie and was telling him about Ellie and making memories.“He’s part of a biker group and he reached out to them and members of the Royal British Legion and the Dunedin chapter riders branch and individual riders all wanted to come and give Ellie this surprise.“We had arranged it for 2pm we brought Ellie out to the back drive and all these bikers drove through and stopped in the street.

To say that she was amazed is an understatement.”The teen was even gifted her own personalised leather jacket with unique patches for her ride with the bikers.Elaine said: “Ellie was presented with her very own leather vest with patches already sewn on it.

She was also gifted teddy bears, flowers, money, gift cards, patches and stickers.“Eddie Anderson came and filmed this special event.