A GWENT mum's family picked up an award on her behalf after she lost her battle with cancer.

Mother-of-five Jennie Moore, 45, from St Dials, Cwmbran, was given the title of Wonder Mum just a week before passing away on February 26.

Yesterday her 14-year-old daughter Chelsie collected a trophy at Asda in Cwmbran and a bouquet of flowers for the mum she nominated for the award.

Chelsie's father Terry Moore, 54, a school caretaker, said the trophy would take pride of place in the living room cabinet.

"It doesn't get any easier, but this award shows what a brilliant mother she was because she always put her five children first," he said.

Mrs Moore, a dinner lady at Hollybush Primary School, left Chelsie 14, Bethan, 10, Lloyd, eight, Iestyn, seven, and Ashley, 18.

Mr Moore said coming to terms with the loss of his wife of 15 years would be a slow process for the whole family.

"We talk about her all the time and visit her grave every week with flowers," said Mr Moore, of Broome Path, St Dials.

"I'm slowly coming to terms with it but the kids keep me going, they've been excellent.

"We do the things we would have done with Jen - we've just got the garden done because that's what she would have wanted.

"And Jen always wanted to buy Bethan a rabbit and now she's got one.

"We all miss her - she was a wonderful, bubbly person but we're doing what she would have wanted us to do, which is carry on as normal." In her letter to the store, Chelsie wrote of Mrs Moore: "I think my mum is a wonder mum because she is a real fighter. She made me, my sister and my three brothers so happy at Christmas."

Mrs Moore had been fighting colon cancer for five months when she died a month before Mother's Day.