She was given the shock diagnosis after going to the doctors and complaining of feeling tired all the time. Just a few months later, Hannah Elmes, from Gloucestershire, died in September 2024 following a short battle with leukaemia. She was just 21 when she died. Now, her childhood best friend Harry Ashcroft, 21, has spoken of the phone call from his mum telling him about Hannah's diagnosis. It was heartbreaking for the young man who speaks of his childhood best friend with huge affection. Harry, who moved to Liverpool for university, said: "I remember my mum called me and told me on the phone and I messaged Hannah not expecting a response, but she replied. I couldn't believe it." Harry said: "She was very funny, sarcastic, she was warm, she smiled a lot. She lit up any room she was in." Harry said he'd been friends with Hannah from the moment they could walk until the day she died, he told the Liverpool Echo. He said: "Both our families had moved into the road we lived on around the s...
