For more than 10 years he has bravely battled a debilitating condition for which there is there is no known cure.
But in 2022 former footballer Mark Taylor saw motor neurone disease (MND), which turned his own life upside down, thrust into the spotlight following the high profile campaigning of rugby stars and Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield, and the death of Doddie Weir.
And in the same year the Government pledged to release £50m in funding for MND research in the hope that new treatments and eventually a cure can be found for MND, a condition in which the brain and nerves progressively degenerate.
