FREE advice and support about cancer will be available in York when a charity’s mobile service rolls up in the city.

Macmillan Cancer Support’s bus will be visiting Parliament Street on Wednesday, with cancer information specialists on hand to answer questions and provide information.

The team encourages anyone with concerns relating to cancer to stop by, whether you are living with cancer, or care for someone who is.

Macmillan Cancer Support is encouraging people to be aware of the signs and symptoms of the disease.

Symptoms of bowel cancer include bleeding from your bottom, blood in your stools, a pain or lump in your back passage and losing weight for no obvious reason.

The team will be in Parliament Street from 10am to 4pm, and will be joined by bowel screening practitioners in the afternoon.