AN INSPIRATIONAL teenager who captured the world's hearts as she tackled a ?bucket list? of achievements has lost her long battle with terminal cancer.
Brave Alice Pyne attracted global help as she tried to tick off her list of things she wanted to experience after being diagnosed with Hodgkin?s Lymphoma.
She achieved her ambition in August, crossing off whale watching after travelling to Canada.
But Alice?s parents announced late on Saturday night that the 17-year-old had died after fighting the illness for more than four years.
Smiles ... Alice after whale-watching experience
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Her mother, Vicky, wrote on Twitter: ?Our darling girl, Alice, gained her angel wings today.
?She passed away peacefully with Simon, Milly and myself by her side. We are devastated and know that our lives will never again be the same. #NightNightAlice?
Vicky and Alice?s father Simon again celebrated Christmas with Alice a month early last year with relatives, a tradition started in 2010.
Alice?s bucket list, which also included the hope that everyone in the UK signs up to the bone marrow register and charity work, attracted celebrity backing.
Gleefully announcing ?done? when she managed to achieve one of the items on the list, she managed to complete:
DONE - To buy a static caravan for my charity
DONE - To actually receive my BEM medal
DONE - To go whale watching
DONE - Visit Cadbury World
DONE - To go to my school leavers? prom
DONE - To stay in the Chocolate room at Alton Towers
DONE - To swim with sharks
DONE ?ish - To go to Kenya (got to go to Kent-ya)!
DONE - To enter Mabel in a Labrador show
DONE - Photo shoot with Milly, Clarissa, Sammie and Megs
DONE - To have a private cinema party for me and my BFFs
DONE - To design a Emma Bridgewater Mug to sell for charity
DONE- To stay in a caravan
DONE - To have a purple Apple iPad
DONE - To meet Take That
DONE - To have a nice picture taken with Mabel
DONE - To have my hair done
DONE - To have a back massage
Complete ... Alice ticked off her whole list
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Alice was awarded a British Empire Medal for her services to charity in the Queen?s Birthday Honours List last year, along with her sister Milly, 14.
Together they raised more than ?100,000 for charity and she set up the charity Alice?s Escapes, which would help parents with a seriously-ill child to go on holiday.
Alice regularly posted on her internet blog, keeping people updated on her condition.
In her poignant last post on New Year?s Day, she wrote: ?Can?t believe that I?m really saying ?Happy New Year? to you all.
?I don?t think that there is a single doctor that would have expected me to be here when they sent me home over two years ago (although I have had a fair bit of help in keeping going LOL).
?This month (that sounds good) my charity caravan will be arriving and I hope that I?m going to be well enough to go and spend the first night in it and pretend that I?m on an Alice?s Escape LOL.
Family ... Sister Milly and mum Vicky supported Alice
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?I?m so excited about this happening because every time I plan something, I always think that I won?t be here to see it happen and then I am!
?So I?ll try really hard not to pop off in the next few weeks and then I can be at the open day we?re planning!
?Other than the fact that I?m really tired and funny lights still bother me, I feel a whole lot better and the lumps in my neck have actually gone down again.
?So, my New Year mission is to get a bit fatter which will hopefully give me more energy! ?
Alice, of Ulverston, Cumbria, admitted she was taken aback by how her bucket list had spread around the world.
Speaking after her whale-watching trip she said: ?When I made my bucket list I never expected it to be published to the whole world - so I didn?t expect to tick off the last item - I didn?t even expect to get the majority of my wishes fulfilled.
?Words can?t really explain it but I?m so happy it is done.
?There was a point where I was on the back of the boat and a whale came up two metres away from me. It was about 25 foot long and just amazing.
?I always said you should take a few risks and there is no part of me that thinks this was a bit of a risk. What was the worst that could happen? More people should feel the same way.?
News of Alice?s death attracted many tributes to her blog and social media sites.
Among the kind messages was one from comedian David Walliams, who wrote on Twitter: ?I am so sad about the passing of Alice Pyne, who I met through the Pride of Britain Awards.
?What a beautiful and courageous girl. X?
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