Aged 76, struggling with prostate cancer, Tom Lowery says the medications he's on are making him too weak to take on a marathon. Instead, he's going to jump out of a plane - for an incredible reason.
Tom, a retired HGV driver and Royal Signals veteran, watched as his partner Joan Lyons sadly succumbed to cancer in 2022. Joan, his partner of some 24 years, was a patient at St Ann’s Hospice in Little Hulton and was cared for there until she died in March last year.
Joan had been ill for three months with a brain tumour before her tragic death. But Tom, who is himself is enduring his own cancer diagnosis, has bravely decided to take on the remarkable challenge of skydiving in her memory.
