A mother who tragically lost her daughter after she was poisoned in her own home is promoting National Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week.

Katie Haines, a former Sutton High school pupil, died in February 2010, just two months after her wedding, of carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty boiler.

Mrs Haines, 31, was hit by an invisible cloud of the poisonous gas when getting out of the bath and was knocked backwards hitting her head.

She was found by her new husband and his father, both of whom suffered low level poisoning while trying to resuscitate her.

The Oxford University press officer was pronounced dead on her arrival at hospital.

Mrs Haines’ mother, Avril Samuel, set up the Katie Haines Memorial Trust in her memory.

They have donated audible carbon monoxide alarms to charities serving vulnerable people and exhibited at university fresher fairs.

Mrs Samuel said: "Earlier this month a friend advised someone he knew to get an alarm because she said her daughter had been complaining of headaches and was very listless - the alarm, when installed, went off."

She points out that there is legislation in Ireland and Scotland making alarms mandatory in all new builds but nothing in England.

Mrs Samuel added: "It is very important for people to be aware of carbon monoxide poisoning, particularly at this time of year.

"It doesn't just come from boilers, but cookers, wood burning stoves, log fires - in fact any fossil fuels."

Gordon Samuel, Mrs Haines' father, said: "We could not be more proud of our darling Katie and we will work ceaselessly to keep her memory alive and to help spread awareness of the deadly Carbon Monoxide that took her life."

They both say that their most important message is to buy those you love a Carbon Monoxide detector this Christmas.

Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week takes place from 18 November to 24 November