MICHELIN starred chef Andrew Fairlie helped boost a cancer fund by almost £60,000.

The Gleneagles restaurant owner, who has spent more than 10 years, living with a brain tumour, and his staff have raised £52,712 to support a groundbreaking Beatson Cancer Charity-funded Radiotherapy Research Project.

The three-year project is being led by Professor Anthony Chalmers, Clinical Oncology Institute of Cancer Sciences & Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre and University of Glasgow, and will significantly increase the ability of radiotherapy treatments to shrink, control and in some cases eradicate cancers.

Mr Fairlie said: “I am very grateful to everyone that has enabled me to raise so much money for The Beatson, our guests at the restaurant, my staff and some very generous friends and donors.

“It’s the very least I could do considering the world class treatment and service myself and my family have received from every single person we have come into contact with at The Beatson.”