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image captionBethany Walker was 18 when she died
An emergency helicopter pad built in memory of a teenager who died from flu and sepsis has been used for the first time.
Bethany Walker, 18, from Applecross in Wester Ross, died in January 2018.
Community fund-raising and donations paid for the newly-completed landing site at the village s fire station.
Inverness Coastguard search and rescue helicopter landed at the pad on Tuesday during the rescue of woman who had been injured in a fall.
A helicopter was involved in the effort to save Bethany s life.
She was flown to hospital in Inverness in 34 minutes after she became severely ill. The journey by road could have taken two hours.
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