A concert was played last night in aid of a teenage girl who has been in a coma six months after being injected with heroin.

Bands, raffles and collections were held at the Carlisle pub on Hastings seafront to raise cash for Amy Pickard, 17.

Amy has been in a coma at the Conquest Hospital in Hastings since being found in town-centre public toilets having been injected with the drug.

She was pregnant at the time and had to give birth to a daughter, Summer Louise, by Caesarean section. The baby died five days later on the day she was baptised.

Since then, Amy's mother, Thelma, 48, and brother, David, 21, have kept a constant bedside vigil as Amy fights for life.

Thelma and David were at last night's gig, which featured Folkestone-based band the Sick Note Blues Band, with all cash helping support Amy and Mrs Pickard, who has left work as a nurse.

Mrs Pickard, of Sandown Road, Hastings, said: "Amy is showing some improvement. She has been making eye contact and showing flickers of movement."