Dame Deborah James was sitting up in her hospital bed the last time her friend Emma Campbell saw her. Debs, as Emma knew her, had just months left, having battled stage four bowel cancer for five years.
She was not supposed to have anyone in her room because of the risk of infection but longed to see her friend.
Emma says: “She wasn’t allowed visitors at that point but it was a chemo day for me. I remember her saying, ‘You probably won’t be let in, but try and see if you can’.”
