Saltney's Anchor Hotel raises funds for Clatterbridge Centre after pub’s customer recovers from brain tumour

Oct 28 2010 by Mark Dowling, Chester Chronicle

Anchor Hotel, Saltney, raises funds for Clatterbridge Centre after pub’s customer recovers from brain tumour

A PUB’S fundraiser raised a terrific sum for a cancer treatment centre where one of its regular customers was treated for a brain tumour.

The event, held in the Anchor Hotel pub on Saltney High Street, saw more than £1,700 raised in aid of the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology.

The inspiration for the fundraiser came from David Fortune who has made a complete recovery from a brain tumour.

David, 21, of Park Avenue, Saltney, said he was delighted with the support shown from the community.

He said: “I just want to say thanks to friends, family, companies and everyone who donated, and the City Arms pub for the tug-of-war tournament.”

David has suffered with a brain tumour and was diagnosed aged just 19. “It was in January 2009 when I had a headache and felt sick, but doctors kept sending me away thinking I had a migraine. I got to the A&E hospital in the Countess of Chester and I collapsed.

“When I came round, I had been sick several times over the three or four nurses who were treating me, because of the way the tumour was affecting my brain. I had a scan and that was when the brain tumour was spotted.”

“I had an operation two days later and I had several weeks off to recover, and had therapy at the Clatterbridge Centre.”

David, who is hoping to return to work for the Francesco Group hairdressers in Chester, said: “My mum Annmarie, dad Dave and sister Samantha were all around and I got great support.”

And last week David received brilliant news. “I was told by the doctors I should just get on with my life now after getting the all-clear, and I felt like the world had been lifted off my shoulders.”