At the end of the road I live on in Herne Bay in Kent, there’s a bench. It overlooks the sea and is a place I often go when I want to clear my mind. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve sat the

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I’d vowed to stop at nothing to help my husband but as the devastating news kept coming, time was running out.

Sitting beside the hospital bed where my 15-year-old daughter Leoni lay, I clutched her hand. ‘It’s cancer,’ I said, fighting back tears. Seeing her bewildered face staring back at me, my heart broke.

Brett’s fiancée had been by his side through a devastating diagnosis. Then a cruel twist of fate turned the tables…

While my hero was losing his fight, I had a battle of my own