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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Cancer campaigner Dame Deborah James ‘had no regrets but didn’t want to die’, says mum

The mother of cancer campaigner Dame Deborah James said her daughter told her she did not want to die in a late-night chat, just days before her death.

Heather James told of the heartbreaking moment Dame Deborah - who died in June after being diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer - said “I don’t want to die”.

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