Deborah James hailed as a ‘beacon’ whose legacy will save lives

Campaigners and bowel cancer sufferers pay tribute to late podcaster who raised 7m and publicised symptoms of disease

When Dame Deborah James revealed that she was receiving hospice-at-home care for terminal bowel cancer, she admitted that she had hoped to be an outlier who would live for ever.

That was not to be. But James's legacy will live on: one that will give countless other Deborahs across the country more time to live than she was able to have herself.