Ever since being diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer five years ago, Dame Deborah James tirelessly campaigned to raise awareness so that others wouldn't share her fate.
And in the last six weeks since sharing the "message [she] never wanted to write", she raised over £6.7million for Cancer Research UK, was awarded a damehood and left behind a legacy that her children would be able to look back on with pride for the rest of their lives.
Heartbreakingly, her family announced on Tuesday night that the beloved BBC star had died peacefully while surrounded by loved ones.
