An 11-year-old boy and his step-brother have raised thousands of pounds to support people with cancer. James walked the distance of 10k with his step-brother Alfie, 12, who has been supporting him with his mother s death. His mother Amanda sadly died of cancer one day before his fundraising walk, on December 4. James insisted on walking that day, as the boys had raised so much and didn’t want to let people down, said his step-mother Kelly Kemp. The young boys walked around Central London in fancy dress and raised a whopping £17,150.50 for Cancer Research UK.
James and Alfie Speaking to Sutton Guardian, Kelly said: The walk for James meant a lot.
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Billy Marin A BRAVE toddler who has returned home in time for Christmas after receiving cancer treatment in German has also been given a special award for his bravery. Three-year-old Billy Marin and his family received the devastating news in September that his cancer had returned, just six months after he was given the all clear. Billy, from Billingham, was just 13 months old when he was diagnosed with ependymoma, a rare type of brain tumour, in November 2018. He underwent a 10-hour operation to remove the tumour and 13 months of intensive chemotherapy, which at one point left him so poorly with a type of sepsis that doctors feared he wasn’t going to make it.
Thousands of people in Essex missed out on potentially life-saving scans when non-Covid NHS services ground to a halt during the pandemic. Analysis of official figures by the BBC Shared Data Unit has found that at least 136,970 fewer diagnostic imaging scans were carried out across the area between April and September this year, compared to the same period in 2019. However, as figures are only available for two of the five NHS trusts in Essex and exclude private hospitals, the true number of people missing out on scans is likely far higher. Across NHS trusts in the area that had data available, 263,325 scans were performed in the first six months of the pandemic – a drop of 34 per cent from the 400,295 that took place the year before.