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Swimmer Archie Goodburn has been successful in his efforts to improve brain cancer care for patients as the UK government announce new measures.

The Scottish athlete, who was diagnosed with three inoperable brain tumours two years ago, met Prime Minister Andy Burnham after making an emotional plea on BBC Breakfast for more investment to be put into brain cancer research.

After the meeting, Burnham announced a new national brain cancer clinical lead and promised a review of brain cancer progress and action to get patients treatment sooner.

Goodburn, 25, thanked the prime minister and said all three of his requests have been "promised to some extent" but "fleshing out" needs to be done on the details.

The prime minister described the swimmer an "inspiration to us all" and said he was "delighted" to welcome him to Downing Street.

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