Fairytale wedding for cancer victim

Doctors told Kirsty Ferris she was living on borrowed time after discovering she had terminal cancer.

She felt stabbing pains in her back for a year and thought it was a trapped nerve but acupuncture and various other treatments did not ease the pain.

An MRI scan revealed a shadow around her kidney and a biopsy at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth confirmed it was cancer which has now spread to her lower back and lymph glands.

The doctors said she probably had renal cell cancer for about two years and gave her months to live.

The diagnosis in December came just seven months after her father John died of prostate cancer at the age of 56.

Her boyfriend Richard Bare proposed within minutes of the diagnosis outside the hospital and the couple, from Plymouth, have vowed to make the most of the time they have left.

Miss Ferris has dreamed of her wedding since she was a child and staff at St Luke's Hospice, who had been caring for her, contacted city hotel owner Joseph Louei to help make it happen.

He has agreed to stage the couple's wedding at the city's Astor Hotel free of charge.