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"We were told that our baby wasn't emptying his bladder, that's what the big shape was," recalls his mother.

Speaking after an investiture ceremony on Tuesday, the Margate-based artist spoke about the health problems she suffered after she was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2020 and how it had affected her work.

Speaking afterwards, she said her 2020 bladder cancer diagnosis had made her focus on "helping other people".

The singer and songwriter who helped popularize folk music in the 1960s died of bladder cancer at his home in New York.

Professor Paul Gill, from Northumbria University, said: "It has a long term impact on the bladder and urinary tract but we still don't know an awful lot about the longer term consequences on the body."