Presenter Deborah James has been hailed as a "beacon of inspiration" for her support for people with cancer. The mum has spent the last six years trying to find a cure after she was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in December 2016.
Rather than fight it alone she documented her story on social media highlighting every step of her journey. On Monday she finally had to admit to followers that she no longer had long to live after "leaving no stone unturned" but without finding treatment to save her life.
But determined to make a difference to the end the mum, who goes by Bowelbabe on her social media, launched a fundraising appeal for research into the disease. Asking people to donate the price of a drink, it rapidly smashed its £250,000 target and by Wednesday morning it stood at more than £2.6m.
