A MOTHER-of-two is in a real spin - she has been bequeathed 20,000 vinyl records and does not know what to do with them.

Kelly Skillin says she has just over a month to find a buyer for the records or facing putting the whole lot in a skip after she was left the collection by her father-in-law Thomas Skillin.

She said: "I need to try to find a home for the records because my father-in-laws house is to be sold. There is no space at my house."

Mrs Skillin, who lives with her husband Darren and two children in Kingsbury Close, Bury, was left with the vinyl records in gratitude for the care she gave Mr Skillin during his final days battling cancer.

He died at the age of 51 towards the end of April.She nursed him throughout the illness after he discovered he had lung cancer just over six months ago.

She and Darren even brought their wedding forward to March this year so he could join them on honeymoon in Austria.

In his will, he left her the collection of 20,000 vinyl records together with a small internet business he was planning to create to sell them on after taking early retirement from his job as a psychiatric nurse.

Mrs Skillin said: "I had a special relationship with him and nursed him through until the bitter end.

"As a way of displaying his gratitude, he has left his record collection and the website business to me. But I do not have the time or space to run it.

"And I am hoping that somebody can take the business on and run it as my father-in-law wanted."

Mrs Skillin is now making a desperate appeal for help and advice on what to do with the web-based enterprise.

Mr Skillin started up the enterprise 18 months ago and started collecting records from 1945 10-inch to modern day rave tracks and taught himself how to use the internet.

He converted his garage at his Helmshore home to store the records which he had bought from friends and car boot sales.

Mrs Skillin said: "The enterprise was ready for his retirement and as a hobby and past-time. He was just teaching me how to run it as the end came, but he only managed to show me so much."

Now Mrs Skillin says she has no choice but to sell the business because of family commitments looking after her children, 19-month-old Isobelle, and eight-month-old Frank.

She said: "Not only am I left high and dry with some of the intricacies of the internet enterprise. But now I have six weeks while his home is being sold to relocate 20,000 records. I have two babies and a self-employed husband and not enough cupboard space. I need help."

Mrs Skillin can be contacted by email at kellyskillin@yahoo.co.uk or on 0161 764 1960