Cash raised from a memorial concert to Bradford lawyer Roger Suddards CBE has helped buy two pieces of equipment for improving treatments for cancer.

The concert at St George's Hall on September 6 last year, the day of Princess Diana's funeral, raised £15,000 in advertising and ticket sales. Sir Graham Kirkham, patron of Bradford's War on Cancer charity which organised the concert, added another £10,000.

A cheque for £25,000 was recently presented to War on Cancer's founder and chairman, Mr Arnold Moore, at a 'Something to Shout About' event at Bradford University.

The money has now bought a laser detector and a modular access controlled system for Bradford Royal Infirmary's Clinical Oncology Unit.

"Roger Suddards was passionate about Bradford, the place and the people. In his lifetime he championed many worthy local causes, including our own," Mr Moore told the T&A.

"The fund-raising concert for War on Cancer held in his memory shows that he still plays an active part in the life of his beloved city. Without him we would not have been able to purchase two new pieces of equipment that will take our research work forward in leaps and bounds.

"The equipment will greatly aid the work of Dr Paul Loadman in monitoring drug levels in patients and his more basic research into drug penetration into tumours and normal tissue," he added.

Roger Suddards, who died aged 65 in December 1995, was a former Deputy Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Pro-Chancellor of Bradford University, chairman of Yorkshire Building Society, trustee of the Bradford Playhouse (now the Priestley Centre for the Arts), and one of English Heritage's 11 Commissioners.

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