Daniel Galmiche thanks colleagues as wife's cancer battle fundraiser approaches £100,000

Chef Daniel Galmiche has thanked colleagues from across hospitality following support for a fundraiser to support his wife's battle against cancer.

The chef and author's wife Claire is battling Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, with the couple looking to fund new private treatments.

Donations to a gofundme page are approaching £100,000, well on the way to the £150,000 target.

Galmiche, who has spent the last 18 months focused on his wife's care, said: "It's been really humbling to see the response from the trade. The support from my friends in the trade, I can only say thank you, they do not realise how much they are helping with her treatment."

The breast cancer diagnosis was Claire's fourth and having seen her cancer go into remission three times before, she has said she has faith in that research, hard work and determination can lead to healing. This week she has been undergoing further tests at London's Wellington Hospital before decisions can be made regarding her ongoing treatment.

In a message posted to her gofundme page this week she said: "I know if love could heal me I would be better already… But there's something else you've provided too: I now have access to the most advanced possible treatments and approaches and it has given me hope of a way forwards, and of course the much-needed relief from some of the pain at least."

Claire's fundraising page can be found here