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A Bristol bride-to-be is in a race against time to find a life-saving stem cell donor for her partner.

Kate Robertson, 31, has just 60 days to find a donor for her fiance Mike Brandon, 29, who has leukaemia.

She is urging people to join a donor register so Mr Brandon can have the transplant he desperately needs when he finishes his course of chemotherapy in early July.

Ms Robertson told the Mail Online: Our friends and family in London and Bristol have rallied around, asking what they can do to help, and at least 20 of them joined the Anthony Nolan donor register straight away.

"Any one of them could be a match for someone like Mike who needs a donor.

"It's so easy and straightforward to sign up. We started thinking that if we channel our energies into getting our friends, and friends of friends, and even strangers, to join the register, we could make a big difference."

In March this year, Mr Brandon, who also lives in Bristol, started to suffer from fatigue and night sweats.

He visited a doctor who carried out blood tests and just four hours later he was given the devastating news that he has acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

At the time Ms Robertson, a physiotherapist, was halfway through a six-month backpacking trip in Burma.

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