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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Sarah Ward & Adam May

Terminally ill mum saving for enormous winter fuel bills as well as her own funeral

A terminally ill mum is now saving for winter fuel bills as well as her own funeral - and says the cold worsens the pain she has from bone cancer.

Mum-of-one Melanie Finlay, 48, does not know if she will live to see Christmas after being diagnosed with stage four metastatic cancer in March 2021.

She was given the all-clear from breast cancer in 2019 but pain in her bones was dismissed as hormonal in 2020.

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