A FORMER professional boxer has given away ten VIP tickets to cancer patients so they can attend his event at the Metrodome.

Neil Kirkwood made the kind gesture after discovering that barber Tony Batty offers free shaves and haircuts to people suffering from cancer.

Tony goes to people’s homes and to the hospital in his free time to offer the service.

He was contacted by Neil, who offered him ten tickets to the ‘Night of the Champions’ event on September 24 which will see three title fights.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle