Special Bench Unveiled at Lingen Davies Cancer Centre in Shrewbury

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00:00I'm Sue, I'm Will's mum.

00:02And I'm his dad, Dave Roberts.

00:05So we're outside the Lincoln Davis Centre in Shrewsbury,

00:09where this bench has been donated in memory of our son.

00:16And it's just amazing. It's beautiful.

00:19When Will was poorly, his last visit to Lincoln Davis,

00:24he wasn't fit enough to get inside into the centre.

00:28So he sat on the old bench out here.

00:31And Di Everson, his tumour nurse, came out to see him.

00:36And that was it.

00:38So obviously we went and it was all downhill from there, obviously.

00:42And then after his funeral,

00:46we'd been donated like £8,000 from the funeral.

00:50And we were talking to Helen Knight and she said,

00:53how about a bench somewhere in his memory?

00:56And so, and it was just so fitting. It was perfect.

01:00So, and it was spot on as far as we were concerned.

01:04Beautiful idea.

01:05It was just somewhere we thought to people to come and sit outside

01:09and be undercover if it could have a roof, which it has, which is brilliant.

01:13And for family as well, so that everybody can sit and chat

01:17if they've had a good diagnosis or a bad diagnosis.

01:20And also for wheelchairs as well,

01:22so that everybody can be undercover and be together.

01:25That's it.

01:26Yeah, it's perfect. Absolutely perfect.

01:28And this has all been donated by local firms.

01:32And we're just so very, very grateful.

01:35And it's such a lovely, lovely piece of furniture

01:38that will be here for many, many years.

01:40And hopefully everybody will make use of it.

01:43So we'd just like to thank everybody for all the donations

01:46of doing the plans and making it and bringing it here today.

01:50It's just so very, very thoughtful and a lovely tribute.

01:54Absolutely. Yeah, definitely.