A WIDOWER who lost his wife to cancer has set up a fund in her honour to help other patients.

Mother-of-four Ellen Stuckey died last year, aged 46, from breast cancer, at the James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough.

Husband Mike, 43, from Coulby Newham, has since raised more than £2,500 for the Ellen Stuckey Fund, to provide cancer patients at the hospital with complementary therapies, such as aromatherapy, Indian head massage and reflexology.

He said: "Complementary therapies did give Ellen a lot of comfort and I know NHS budgets are always tight.

"I just thought it would be nice if we could put as much money into the fund as we can and buy the oils needed."

General nurse Andrea Harris is also a qualified complementary therapies practitioner and provides cancer patients at the hospital with therapy.

She said: "Thanks to fundraising such as this I can continue to help patients."

Mr Stuckey has taken part in two charity walks, from Marske to South Gare, at Redcar and around Guisborough woods.

He has also provided four combined TV and video recorders and tapes for the ward where his wife, who was Australian, died