So says former shipping lawyer and Spinnaker Global chairman Phil Parry, whose son, Oscar, was diagnosed with leukaemia.

But with the help of ground-breaking medicine at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), his life was saved.

“Eight years since that happened to us, Oscar has just finished his GCSEs and will turn 16 on Bastille Day, 14 July 2016. We dared not dream that life would ever be so normal.”

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