£12 whip-round at factory saves worker from death

A delivery driver’s life was saved when his colleagues paid for a brain scan that revealed a life-threatening tumour.

Gary Harris, 38, had been put on a three-month waiting list for an NHS scan but was later told by doctors that he would have died within two weeks had he not had an emergency operation to remove the tumour.

All 60 employees at Park Furnishers, Bristol, paid £12 each — a total of £720 — to cover the cost of having the scan done privately because Mr Harris was convinced that there was something seriously wrong.