Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding's mum gives emotional speech at unveiling of plaque in star's honour

Girls Aloud prima Sarah Harding has been honoured with a plaque successful her representation successful her hometown of Stockport, 3 years aft she died astatine the property of 39 aft being diagnosed with bosom cancer

A plaque to commemorate the beingness of Girls Aloud prima Sarah Harding was unveiled connected Sunday.

The caller summation successful Stockport was revealed alongside a stunning pinkish mural that showed the precocious vocalist with a beaming smile. Sarah died successful 2021 aged conscionable 39 aft being diagnosed with breast cancer.

The plaque was unveiled to people the bequest of the vocalist which is helping to prevention young women's lives. Prior to her death, Sarah acceptable up a foundation to money ways of detecting bosom crab aboriginal erstwhile it is much treatable. At the plaque unveiling, Sarah's mum Marie was connected manus for the authoritative unveiling.

The uncover took spot hundreds joined a fundraising locomotion successful representation of the popular prima successful her location municipality of Stockport.

In an affectional code to the assemblage that had gathered, she work a enactment saying aft saying: "Sarah faced her devastating diagnosis with fierce courageousness and determination. Throughout her unwellness she spent a large woody of clip successful the Christie infirmary being treated and cared for by the dedicated doctors and nurses determination and I'm eternally grateful to each of them for their selfless kindness and support."

She continued however she knows Sarah would beryllium "blown away" by the plaque and mural. She was supported by Sarah's friend, Fran, arsenic she fought backmost the tears and added: "I'm truthful precise arrogant of my beauteous girl and everything she achieved successful her tragically abbreviated life.

"She'd beryllium thrilled to bits to spot truthful galore of you present contiguous showing your emotion and enactment for her and for the Sarah Harding Breast Cancer Appeal."

Ending her affectional speech, Marie shared her acknowledgment for those successful attendance and said she hoped thy enjoyed the remainder of the celebrations the time had to bring. The assemblage gave her a immense circular of applause arsenic she handed the microphone implicit and was consoled by Fran.

Fran added however everyone truly missed Sarah, insisting the vocalist would person been blown distant by the juncture and "the information that her sanction is truthful beardown time aft day".

It was Marie who archetypal broke the devastating quality of Sarah's passing successful 2021. Taking to the star's Instagram page, Marie's connection astatine the clip read: "It’s with heavy heartbreak that contiguous I’m sharing the quality that my beauteous girl Sarah has sadly passed away. Many of you volition cognize of Sarah’s conflict with crab and that she fought truthful powerfully from her diagnosis until her past day.

""She slipped distant peacefully this morning. I’d similar to convey everyone for their benignant enactment implicit the past year. It meant the world to Sarah and it gave her large spot and comfortableness to cognize she was loved. I cognize she won’t privation to beryllium remembered for her combat against this unspeakable illness – she was a agleam shining prima and I anticipation that’s however she tin beryllium remembered instead."

The Sarah Harding Breast Cancer Appeal has raised implicit £1million to day successful its bid to assistance money probe into diagnosing bosom crab successful younger women.

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