A GRANDMOTHER who was hoping to travel to Germany for cancer treatments which are not available in the UK has died.

Jill Speed, 56, of Elm Court, Worsbrough Dale, died on October 16.

She had been in remission from breast cancer for three years when it returned in September last year and spread to her lung, bowel and ovaries.

The family launched a campaign and raised £17,500 of their £20,000 target to get Jill to Germany for alternative treatments.

But the trip had to be postponed twice because Jill was too unwell to travel and she sadly never got there.

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