Rachael Bland

Rachael Bland (née Hodges, 21 January 1978 – 5 September 2018) was a Welsh journalist and a presenter. She worked with BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC North West Tonight. She was known for her podcast, You, Me and the Big C, where she talked about living with breast cancer.

Bland was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer in November 2016.

On 3 September, she announced on her Twitter account that her "time had come", and that she only had days left. She died two days later at the age of 40 in Cheshire.

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