The parents of a 10-year old boy who died after suffering an asthma attack have spoken of their heartbreak.

Lyle Hunter took ill at his home in Greenock earlier this month and died despite desperate efforts to save him.

His mother Lorraine, 44, tried to revive him using inhalers and a nebuliser.

Paramedics rushed him to Glasgow's Yorkhill Hospital but doctors could not save him. His family were at his bedside when he died on February 2.

Lyle's father Craig said: "He was more than a son, he was my best friend. He was our only child, the only grandchild and great-grandchild - he was the focus of the whole family. he was our world."

Craig, a taxi driver, added: "It's been the worst time of my life, the future has been taken away from us.

"Losing a child is something that you're never prepared for, especially when it's so sudden.

"I keep expecting him to come back - it's still not sunk in."

Lyle had suffered from asthma all his life but it was well controlled and he had not suffered an attack for five years.