Great gran fighting cancer is amazed at Leeds firm's kind gesture

The boss of a roofing company called out to price repair work  at a great grandmother's home in Leeds did the £500 job for free after discovering she is battling cancer.
Oli Farmer, Max Field, and Kyle Stanhope from  Millennium scaffolding and roofing with Woodlesford pensioner Margaret Johnson. 
They waived their fee for roof repair work at her terraced home.
Mrs Johnson is suffering from bowel cancer and is undergoing weekly chemotherapy treatment at S James's Hospital in Leeds. 

Picture: Tony JohnsonOli Farmer, Max Field, and Kyle Stanhope from  Millennium scaffolding and roofing with Woodlesford pensioner Margaret Johnson. 
They waived their fee for roof repair work at her terraced home.
Mrs Johnson is suffering from bowel cancer and is undergoing weekly chemotherapy treatment at S James's Hospital in Leeds. 

Picture: Tony Johnson
Oli Farmer, Max Field, and Kyle Stanhope from Millennium scaffolding and roofing with Woodlesford pensioner Margaret Johnson. They waived their fee for roof repair work at her terraced home. Mrs Johnson is suffering from bowel cancer and is undergoing weekly chemotherapy treatment at S James's Hospital in Leeds. Picture: Tony Johnson

Millennium scaffolding and roofing owner Oli Farmer told Woodlesford pensioner Margaret Johnson's family she has enough to worry about before waiving the fee for the work at her terraced home.

Mrs Johnson, who has 16 great grandchildren, is suffering from bowel cancer and is undergoing weekly chemotherapy treatment at St James's Hospital in Leeds.

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Her daughter Kimberlie Hackett, 53, of Methley, said: "They did the whole job and did not charge her a penny. It is such an amazing and generous thing to do.

"She is at the weakest point in her life, battling cancer and going for chemotherapy every week with a long road ahead.

"It is a lot of money for her. The strain and the worry they have taken from her is unbelievable.

"'I'm absolutely shocked that a company in this day and age would do that."

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A number of large pieces of cement had fallen off the ridge of the roof.

Oli Farmer, 28, who runs Millennium scaffolding and roofing, said the roof ridge could have been repaired.

But he said replacing it with a concrete free new dry ridge roof system means Mrs Johnson will not have to worry about it in future.

Mr Farmer, of Allerton Bywater and employees Max Field and Kyle Stanhope spent a day working on the job.

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Mr Farmer, who started the business last summer, said: "I just thought it would be wrong to take money off somebody who is so poorly, especially if I could help and do it for free.

"It just seemed like the right thing to do. I was in a position to help this lady so I did."

Mrs Johnson, whose husband George died aged 81 in 2004, said: "They turned up and said they were doing the full job and didn't want a penny.

"They are absolutely amazing, these young men. Things like this don't normally happen"

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