A GLASGOW lawyer who was killed in a car crash in the Highlands will be laid to rest later this week.

Family and friends of Veronica Banks, 34, will say their final farewells at her funeral service in Newton Mearns on Thursday.

Parents Ida and David and her fiancee Eric will lead mourners at the Church of St Cadoc's, along with her two brothers Richard and Mark.

Ms Banks, 34, who ran her own Newton Mearns-based law firm Banks & Co., died instantly in the crash on the A9, south of Newtonmore, after her sports car collided with a hire coach, last Wednesday.

It had been taking 28 pupils from Kingussie on a history outing to Stirling. Ms Banks was travelling alone in her two-seater MG.

She had opened her own firm two years ago after working for two big Glasgow firms, Ross Harper and Beltrami and Co.

Born in England, Ms Banks had moved to Scotland with her parents and entered secondary school in Glasgow, and graduated LL.B with honours from Glasgow University. She lived in Shawlands.

She was the seventh person to die on the A9 trunk route in less than six months, and there have been regular demands for it to be upgraded.