Cancer victims protest at drug HQ

About 100 kidney cancer patients were protesting outside the Holborn headquarters of the drug rationing watchdog Nice today after it ruled a new treatment was not "cost-effective".

They will try to deliver a letter to Nice chief Andrew Dillon urging him to rethink the decision not to approve four drugs that delay the progress of kidney cancer.

It comes after 26 British cancer consultants accused Nice of forcing patients to remortgage their homes to pay for treatments freely available in Europe.

Leading the protest, retired City bank manager Clive Stone, who was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, said: "If the NHS can spend £300million on removing tattoos every year why can't they fund this?"