Heartbreaking tribute to teenager who died after ‘sports injury' turned out to be cancer

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Yorkshire Live: "When you realise that you have so little time with someone you become really present in the moment. Right through last summer, and especially after we found out the cancer had spread, we basked in every little thing we did together. READ MORE: Inside the 'apocalyptic' shopping centre 'left to rot' after vandals tried to torch it"You can't manufacture that situation and there were moments of spectacularly pure beauty and love.

Even memories of watching Love Island with Lulu, her brother Seth and Paddy are really precious. "But nothing could have prepared us for those last few weeks.

We didn't think she'd make it to Christmas, but she wanted to show Robin, her oncology consultant, that she'd get to 2023, and she made it to New Year's Day. "She added that there was a "lot more to Lulu than her cancer", and that she had a lust for life, for people, and a spontaneity that was infectious - if she wanted to do something, she did it.

But by December she was too unwell to leave her house. Carolyn also revealed that specialists had recommended that further chemo could "buy her a little bit more time" - but said this wasn't what her daughter wanted, as she didn't feel like spending "any of the time that she had left in a hospital bed".