Leicester woman living with incurable cancer 'gutted' as new lockdown prevents reunion with elderly mother

A Leicester woman living with incurable cancer has said she is “gutted” that the city’s new lockdown means she will not be able to see her mother for the first time in 17 weeks.

Michelle Teale, 58, has stage four breast cancer which is “treatable but not curable”, putting her in the shielding group for Covid-19.

A change in government advice, which comes into force on July 6, meant she was preparing to travel to Cleethorpes next week to see her 85-year-old mother, Marian, pictured with her above.

But now Leicester is being placed in additional lockdown measures because of the spike in coronavirus cases, that trip will have to wait.

Mrs Teale said: “She’s been really worried about me since I had my last surgery and I just haven’t been able to see her.

"I’d arranged to see her the week commencing the 6th, so that was a big thing to create a little bubble with her, and I can’t do it now, because it’s non-essential travel. So that’s a bit of a downer really. I feel quite gutted.”