£15 million raised in TV appeal

MORE than £15 million has been generated after an evening of television fundraising in aid of cancer research.

Celebrities including footballer Daniel Sturridge, actor Martin Freeman and actress Anna Friel took part in Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer on Friday night.

The night raised £15,700,222, the event’s website said.

The programme included tributes to the late David Bowie and Caroline Aherne, both of whom died from the disease earlier this year.

Boy George paid tribute to Bowie saying: “I think to a lot of people who grew up in the 70s he (Bowie) was like one of our relatives, he was part of us.

“Losing him was just like losing a family member.”