A FORMER Wellington man is donating proceeds from his latest book to the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance after the service saved his son’s life.

Philip Moore, who still has family living in Taunton, has just released his fifth book entitled Kez (Every Decade Needs a Hero).

He has pledged to donate £2 from every book sold to the air ambulance.

Mr Moore’s 23-year-old son Lee sustained serious head injuries in a high-speed crash in Dorset in September last year.

Luckily for Mr Moore, the air ambulance was stationed at nearby Henstridge airfield and quick-thinking paramedics were on the scene almost immediately to administer emergency first aid before rushing him to Dorset County Hospital.

Earlier this month, almost exactly a year to the day after the crash, Lee met his rescuers at Compton Abbas airfield, along with his father.

Mr Moore, who runs an aircraft servicing business from the airfield, said: "When we heard about the accident we thought we had lost him but the air ambulance did an incredible job and I am so grateful to them.

“Thanks to them, within an hour of the crash Lee had been flown to hospital, operated on, bandaged up and sent to the specialist head injury unit in Southampton. They saved his life."

Kez, a teenage adventure story, can be ordered from most book shops or Amazon.co.uk. For more information, visit his website www.philiplmoore.com