Half a century after they worked together at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, two nurses have been reunited "by fate, perhaps" as they undergo treatment for secondary breast cancer.
On International Women's Day, the Maggie's Newcastle cancer support centre is celebrating the heartwarming reunion, which saw June McDonald and Dorothy MacMoran meet for the first time in decades. Both women worked in the RVI in the late 1960s.
Both women are being supported through their treatment by the Maggie's Centre, which is situated in the grounds of the city's Freeman Hospital. After Dorothy was diagnosed, she was "a little bit apprehensive", but centre head Karen Verrill knew exactly who to introduce her to - though she had no idea that the two woman knew each other.
