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and he's doing it in honour of tom smith, the former scotland rugby captain, who died from the disease back in april, aged just 50. martin geissler went to meet him. andy petersen has lost family and friends to bowel cancer. so he decided to get on his bike to raise awareness of the condition and help to fight it. the symptoms, broadly, are blood in your stool, is a big one, abdominal pains, sudden loss of weight, change in bowel habits, all of which, actually, i'm about to experience in the next seven days. but not because of bowel cancer, but because i am spending 16 hours a day on...

With the ministry of health, local partners, community leaders, years before the ship even arrives. and the question we are asking them is, what do you need? how can we serve you? this is your nation, your people, your vision, how can we help you get there? so, this is the residential floor. already it looks completely different. liking the sort of wooden look. and i was so keen to see what it looks like inside a family's apartment. 0h, cute. ok, this is one of the children's bed, i imagine. so, they have three kids, i am guessing one sleeps in there. two in here, and they actually have a four...

Leaders, years before the ship even arrives. and the question we are asking them is, what do you need? how can we serve you? this is your nation, your people, your vision, how can we help you get there? so, this is the residential floor. already it looks completely different. liking the sort of wooden look. and i was so keen to see what it looks like inside a family's apartment. 0h, cute. ok, this is one of the children's bed, i imagine. so, they have three kids, i am guessing one sleeps in there. two in here, and they actually have a fourth on the way. i can see they have made very good use o...

How can we help you get there? so, this is the residential floor. already it looks completely different. liking the sort of wooden look. and i was so keen to see what it looks like inside a family's apartment. 0h, cute. ok, this is one of the children's bed, i imagine. so, they have three kids, i am guessing one sleeps in there. two in here, and they actually have a fourth on the way. i can see they have made very good use of the space. the cabin belongs to the van der spijk family from the netherlands. they have been volunteering on mercy ships for more than a decade. justin and marianne even...

The cabin belongs to the van der spijk family from the netherlands. they have been volunteering on mercy ships for more than a decade. justin and marianne even met on one, and married shortly afterwards. we met on board the africa mercy 12 years ago, it was in lome in togo. and from lome we travelled to ghana, to accra, the cape coast, it was all really impressive. and we travelled to cotonou in benin, that was also really cool. was the ability to be able to travel around part of the decision—making when you decided to join? it wasn't the reason, but it is a really fun part of it. and in tha...