Emma Matthews and her colleagues from Cornwall Fire, Rescue and Community Safety Service are encouraging people to wear a Bowel Cancer UK Unity Band for World Cancer Day on Saturday, February 4 to fight against cancer in memory of her husband, Martyn, who died from the disease.

Bowel Cancer UK is working with nine other national charities to unite everyone in what they call a simple but powerful life-changing act – wearing a Unity Band on Saturday.

Cancer Research UK, CLIC Sargent, Movember Foundation, Anthony Nolan, Breast Cancer Care, Breast Cancer Now, Bowel Cancer UK, Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group, Marie Curie and The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity are working together to bring the impact of cancer to the forefront of everyone’s minds on World Cancer Day.

You can get a Bowel Cancer UK Unity Band for a suggested donation of £2: bowelcanceruk.org/shop