A WHEELCHAIR-BOUND newlywed has been chosen to carry the Paralympic flame.

Lizzie Kilby was a talented sprinter until she was ten, when she was struck down by a condition which causes her joints to dislocate.

She was left her needing a wheelchair but refuses to let her condition limit her life any more than necessary.

She volunteered for a host of charities before securing a dream role as a learning support assistant at Lexden Springs, a school for children with learning difficulties.

Her example convinced charity Action For Kids, which provided her with a specialist electric wheelchair, to nominate her to take part in the Lloyds TSB-sponsored Paralympic Torch Relay.

On Tuesday evening, days after returning from her honeymoon, she will carry the torch through Aylesbury, as part of its journey from Stoke Mandeville, home of the Paralympic movement, to the Olympic Park.

Mum Anne Rose, 59, of James Street, Colchester, said she was incredibly proud of how her daughter coped with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

She said: “She doesn’t do pity.

“You would never ever see her without a big cheerful smile on her face – she says there are enough miserable people in this world.”

Lizzie was the fastest runner at St James Primary School, in Colchester, until she suffered a series of injuries. By the time she had started at the Gilberd School, also in Colchester, she was confined to a wheelchair.

However, she remained interested in sport and in 2007 was handed a Colchester Youth Award, for her tireless volunteering work coaching youngsters at the then Ormiston Sports Centre, in Monkwick .

Anne added: “Her condition does cause all of her joints to dislocate, but she just gets on with her life.

“She has proved to people that being in a wheelchair does not stop you achieving things.

“Lizzie says ‘you have to go out and make a life for yourself – it’s not handed to you on a plate’.”

Last month, with the help of her father, Andrew, she walked down the aisle of Wimpole Road Methodist Church and married partner Tom Kilby, 28.

Anne added: “She managed to walk down the aisle on the arm of her father, to the hymn One More Step Along The World I Go.

“She said the hymn had meant a lot to her in her life.

“I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house.”