FUND-RAISING efforts in memory of a 35-year-old Porthmadog man have raised more than £25,000 for a cancer care facility in Manchester.

Friends, family and work colleagues of Mike Roberts, who died in February from myeloma, have got together over the last few months to raise the money for the Christie foundation, where Mike received care that was “second to none”.

Mike was the store manager of Tesco Porthmadog for over two years before he was diagnosed with myeloma - a cancer arising from plasma cells, a type of white blood cell which is made in the bone marrow.

He left behind his wife Ammie and daughters Jessica, 10, and four-year-old Poppy.

Ammie, 31, and Jessica joined former workmates to walk up Snowdon on what would have been Mike’s 36th birthday on 11 June for the fund-raising efforts.

Ammie told the Cambrian News the fund-raising was “going well” and that it was “overwhelming” how much people are helping.

“It means the world to us that they want to cherish Mike’s memory and be able to help families like ours by raising money to make it possible,” she said.

Read the full story in today’s Arfon/Dwyfor edition of the Cambrian News