Lynda Bellingham(1948-2014)

She was diagnosed with colon cancer in July 2013. The doctors gave her a good prognosis. However, in September 2014 she revealed the cancer had spread to her liver and lungs and she had planned to stop chemotherapy in November.

Women over 60 are considered past it. We don't have a life, we're supposed to sit around and wait for death I think. Once you've had your children, and brought them up you supposedly have no other purpose in life. And let's face it the media is only just beginning to catch on. I've been banging on about it for ages, but there's a huge audience of women over a certain age that television ignores. Where are the programmes?