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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Harrison Moore & Adam Maidment

'Words can't describe how proud we are': Selfless teen dies after raising over £60k for boy, 6, with cancer

A terminally ill teenager who raised over £60,000 for a six-year-old cancer sufferer who he never met has passed away at the age of 19.

Rhys Langford was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in 2020, a cancer starting in the bones that later spread to other areas of his body.

When Rhys, who worked as a labourer for a water supplier before falling ill, read the story of fellow cancer-sufferer Jacob Jones, he felt implied to do something to help.

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