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Daily chronicles young cancer survivor’s recovery with front page collage

A regional daily chronicled a young cancer survivor’s recovery with a front page collage showing her progress.

The News, Portsmouth, splashed last week on the story of 23-year-old student Olivia Buckland, who fought off the illness twice and has now been named as one of the top 100 ‘women to watch’ at universities across the country.

Olivia, from Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, was first diagnosed in 2013 when she finding a lump on her neck just months after beginning her studies at Cardiff University, but after a year and a half of chemotherapy, during which time the cancer reappeared, she went into remission in November 2014.

A year later she started up her education again at Cambridge and has since gone on to raise £33,688 as president of the university’s breast cancer charity arm Pink Week.

Olivia has now been nominated as one of The Tab’s future 100 – a list of ‘women to watch’ across universities throughout the country.

The front page celebrating her success was designed by Michelle Kilner, who works at the Johnston Press design hub in Sheffield.

Portsmouth front

Mark Waldron, editor of The News, said: “Olivia’s story is inspirational and uplifting and one we had no hesitation in choosing to share on the front page of The News.

“We felt the collage of pictures she had taken to chronicle the stages of her hair growing back following chemotherapy was such a powerful, graphic representation of the journey she had been on that we looked at how we could use these on the front.

“We are happy that the outcome has given us a striking page one, different from the norm, and hope that it does justice to what an absolute star Olivia is.”