'I lost half of my family to the same thing'

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A Manchester university student has told how he lost half of his immediate family - his dad and two of his brothers - to brain cancer in just seven years.

Seb Hughes, 20, spoke of his 'tremendous struggle' after the deaths of his dad, Ian, and brothers, Milo and Oscar - and called for more funding for research into deadly tumours.

Milo, who was five, died in May, 2021. His tragic passing came a year after the death of their dad, also from brain cancer. Mr Hughes, a marketing director, was 49 and Milo was diagnosed with multiple tumours just a few days after he was laid to rest at a funeral.

Milo was born after their brother, nine year-old Oscar, passed away from a brain tumour in May, 2014. The three family tragedies during the brothers' childhoods left Seb, his other brother Lucas and their mum, Marie, devastated. READ MORE: Kersal Dale murder investigation victim, 67, is named and pictured after human remains found But now Seb's channelling his and his family's heartbreak into action - raising money for a charity set up in his brother Oscar's name to help find breakthroughs in the treatment of the cancer that robbed him of his dad and brothers far too soon - and help other families going through the same turmoil.