Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A dad-of-four whose wife died of cancer has shared his devastation after his son also died of cancer earlier this year.
David Winterbottom's wife Kirsty died from melanoma when she was 30 years old. Months later their son, Reece, 16, was diagnosed with a brain tumour. "Just before my son took his final breath, I said to him: 'Your mum is waiting'," David said. "To know they are together again, and she has her arms around him, gives me some comfort. "He was so brave he fought every step of the way." READ MORE: Countryfile star Julia Bradbury to undergo 'urgent surgery' after breast cancer diagnosis Kirsty and David met in 1999 while on a night out
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