Five years after his death from leukaemia, award-winning regional journalist Adrian Sudbury has been credited with leaving a life-saving legacy.

Adrian died aged 27 in August 2008, with then Prime Minister Gordon Brown among those to pay tribute to him. He was diagnosed with two rare forms of bone cancer in November 2006, days after being promoted to a digital journalist role at Trinity Mirror’s Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

He chronicled is illness and treatment via Baldy’s Blog and was named best international blogger at the weblog awards in Las Vegas in 2007 and digital journalist of the year at the Regional Press Awards in 2008.