A teenager who died weeks after donating his life savings to a boy he'd never met has posthumously won a prestigious award. Rhys Langford, from Ebbw Vale, was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer known as osteosarcoma at the age of 18.
He endured months of gruelling treatment and surgery but in January this year he was told it was terminal. After hearing that six-year-old Jacob Jones, who lived in the same village, was also facing cancer Rhys donated his £1,000 life savings to the family to help fund treatment.
Rhys, who died in February at the age of 19, went on to raise a further £67,000 to help fund treatment for little Jacob. He wrote at the time: "Reading about little Jacob and his own fight and his cancer relapse has really upset me. I know nothing can be done for me now but as one of my many last wishes I would like to help Jacob and help him fight this awful disease."
