Flooded-out family of boy with cancer offered home by good samaritan

Storm Desmond flooded Cumbrian house of 15-year-old cancer sufferer, but an unknown benefactor has stepped in to help

A good samaritan has come forward to offer a property to a couple with a son who has cancer after the family were forced out of their home in Cumbria by flooding.

Andrew Williams, a self-employed window fitter, had to leave his house in Kendal on Tuesday when the water reached knee height. His wife was 80 miles away at Alder Hey hospital, where their 15-year-old son, James, had received chemotherapy for osteosarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer most common in teenagers and young adults.