A FIVE-FIGURE sum has been raised in memory of a mother-of-two who sadly lost her battle with cancer last year.

Twenty-six people, predominantly from Dolgellau, Tywyn and Corris, banded together in May to complete a midnight 26.2-mile ‘moonwalk’ in tribute of Julia Evans, who passed away in September of last year.

Julia, who lived in Corris, was 45 years old when she lost her battle last year and left her husband Steve, 41, and two children Thomas, 14, and Leah, 11.

Julia was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2011, and following an operation and chemotherapy treatment, she was told the cancer was in remission.

But in March 2012, she was told the cancer had returned and sadly lost her battle with the disease towards end of 2015.

The midnight march was an apt homage to the determined mother who completed the trial of endurance in 2012 despite suffering from the effects of her first round of chemotherapy, raising more than £4,000 in the process.

Now Julia’s friends and family have completed the same trek four years later, and in the weeks since the moonwalk have managed to raise a whopping £11,335.72 to help fund research against breast cancer, a disease which affects more than 50,000 women every year.

To donate and support Janet in her effort to put an end to breast cancer, visit: www.moonwalklondon2016.everydayhero.com/uk/team-julia

See the full story in this week’s Meirionnydd edition of the Cambrian News