On Twitter, tributes came from the likes of England footballers Jack Wilshere and Rio Ferdinand, Dragon's Den entrepreneurs Peter Jones, Duncan Bannatyne and Deborah Meaden, snooker star Jimmy White, former prime minister's wife Sarah Brown, television presenter Ben Shephard and teenage diving star Tom Daley, whose father died of a brain tumour earlier this year.

BBC: Harry Moseley: Tributes as cancer fundraiser, 11, dies