A GRIEVING student has organised an art exhibition as a tribute to the memory of her boyfriend who died in a car crash last year.

Kelly Runcie was devastated when the news of Mike Noble's death was broken to her. She had only been with him just hours earlier, before he left her house to travel home.

Mr Noble, 21, was on his way back to Tadley from Bath when a collision between his car and another vehicle happened at Paices Hill, Aldermaston, on October 20 last year.

He was just minutes from his Huntsmoor Road home when the accident happened.

Now Miss Runcie, who is studying creative art at Bath Spa University College, has organised the tribute event and decided to hold the exhibition this weekend - as Valentine's Day would have been the couple's three-year anniversary.

The three-day event, which is entitled "Love Lost", has been put together in celebration of Mr Noble's life.

She said: "The exhibition is a way of showing the impact Mike made on everyone's lives and how much we loved him.

"Mike really was everything to me and kept me smiling in times of happiness and sadness.

"He was an amazing person and I'm thankful to have met him and to have had my time with him. I want the exhibition to touch people as much as Mike touched my life.

"The last few months have been a very hard and confusing time. My feelings are up and down and I still don't really believe it's happened.

"Everyone's been very supportive and I'd like to thank all of Mike's friends for their help with the exhibition."

A wide collection of work ranging from photographs, sculptures, paintings, drawings and poems have been put together by people who knew Mr Noble to reflect their memories of him, his personality, life and friendships.

Hayley Butler, 21, was a friend of Mr Noble and has made a model and painting for the display.

Miss Butler, also of Huntsmoor Road, said: "Mike was such an inspiration to the people that knew him and so important to us. This is our way of showing that.

"Obviously not everyone who sees the exhibition is going to know who Mike was but hopefully it'll reflect how precious life is and how quickly it can be taken away."

The exhibition will be on display from today until Sunday on the upper floor of Festival Place shopping centre in Basingstoke.