Suggs, the frontman for the Madness band, was inspired to raise money to fight pancreatic cancer after losing a much-loved sister-in-law to the disease in 2012, he has said.

A London charity gala is being hosted in March by the singer, his third, to add to the £200,000 he has already raised for Pancreatic Cancer UK.

Pancreatic cancer, the least survivable form, killed 8,662 people in the UK in 2012.