Comedian Al Murray is urging people to sign up to a blood stem cell register run by the cancer charity DKMS.
His nephew Finley, aged six, has a rare and aggressive form of childhood leukaemia.
He is undergoing chemotherapy but his best chance of fighting the disease is a bone marrow transplant.
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