A woman whose husband died from cancer while she was being treated for the disease has been chosen to launch a major cancer research fundraising campaign. Shona MacLaren, 34, was undergoing treatment for cervical cancer when her husband Will was diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer.
The IT director and Ayrshire Tornado basketball coach died aged 41 on September 1 last year, just nine days after diagnosis, leaving behind the couple's children Thea, now five, and Mason, now one.
Mrs McLaren, of Stevenston, North Ayrshire, said: "My children mean the world to me and it's incredibly tough knowing they'll grow up without their dad. Will was my rock, my everything.
