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Dorset celebrity chef is new patron of cancer charity

Lesley Waters has established her own cookery school in Shaftesbury.
Lesley Waters has established her own cookery school in Shaftesbury.

DORSET-based celebrity chef Lesley Waters has been named patron of PLANETS Cancer Charity.

PLANETS helps patients with pancreatic, liver, colorectal, abdominal and neuroendocrine cancer by funding patient support groups, innovative treatments and research.

The charity is primarily dedicated to serving the needs of four million people living across Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, the Isle of Wight, the Channel Islands and West Sussex, but it is steadily growing its national profile and influence having now raised more than £1.3 million.

Lesley, who lives in west Dorset, is well known for her regular television appearances on Ready Steady Cook, Great Food Live and This Morning.

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She is also a former head tutor of Prue Leith's School of Food and Wine and author of several cookery books including New to Cooking, Cooler than Chillies, Healthy Food and Deliciously Dairy Free.

Lesley has now established her own cookery school - The Lesley Waters Cook School - in Shaftesbury which offers demonstrations and hands on classes and is also guest chef at White Pepper Cook School.

Lesley’s offer to become patron for the charity came after finding out about its connection with the family of Karen Ford, a keen cook who had previously worked with Lesley and sadly passed away 18 months ago after a long battle against pancreatic cancer.