THE family of a young bricklayer who died in a car crash with his best friend have spoken of their loss.

Lee Hollingworth was just 20 when he died in a crash while travelling in a car between Buxton and Glossop at the end of September. His best friend, Jordan Singleton, 18, also died.

Lee’s sister, Carrie, paid tribute to her brother, who was known as ‘Base’ by many of his friends.

"He was always with his friends," said Carrie.

"He used to love going out with his friends at the weekend. They loved listening to music, mainly bassline music. He was always smiling, he was cheeky and always making people laugh. He always had a bottle of Bud in his hand. I’ve got two kids, and he was forever playing with them. He spent quite a lot of time at mine, and we used to go down to my grandad’s and he was always playing with the kids then."

Lee lived with his mum, Janet, and granddad, Lewis, on Boston Street in Hyde.

He had trained as a bricklayer for three years at Tameside College, and before that was a student at Stamford High in Ashton and at Arundale Primary in Hattersley.

"There were T-shirts printed for his funeral with RIP Base and RIP Lee. Some of his friends had their own tracksuits made, and some of them had pictures printed with Lee and Jordan as they were friends with them both," said Carrie.

"The hardest thing is knowing I’m not going to be able to see him again, that’s hard to accept. Not having children and never seeing him get married, everything really. He was so young."