Across the country people came together to promote a greater awareness into mesothelioma and the danger of asbestos past, present and future.
Hundreds of people affected by mesothelioma lined the Gateshead Millennium Bridge to release 1,000 white balloons signifying the white lung across the banks of the River Tyne.
Joanne Hales whose mother, Ethel Hales, lost both a brother and brother in law to mesothelioma watched with son Caleb.