YOU just might be able to save a 5-year-old's life if you pop along to Bromyard fire station on April 13.

And all you need to do to find out is have a mouth swab.

The little lad in question is Oscar Saxelby-Lee who needs a stem cell transplant to fight his blood cancer, which is too aggressive for chemotherapy to work.

A global search for a donor match has been launched.

Oscar, from Worcester, was diagnosed with T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia just after Christmas last year.

He is on the Anthony Nolan stem cell transplant register, but the Bromyard event is being run by another, similar blood cancer charity, DKMS.

A Herefordshire branch has just been set up under leader Naomi Halling.

She said: "DKMS and Anthony Nolan are both fantastic charities that do very much the same thing.

"The main difference is DKMS accept donors aged 17 to 55, while Anthony Nolan stop registering people at 30.

"Both charities are great and have the same goal in 'deleting' blood cancer and encouraging as many people to join the register as possible. We both feed into the same world wide register.

"I donated my cells in September 2018 and after such a positive experience I made it my mission to spread the word and squash the myth that it is such a painful experience that puts people off.

"Myself and a group of other volunteers created DKMS Herefordshire in February and will be running many drives across the county for years to come.

"Not just for Oscar but for anyone in need."

The Bromyard event is from 9am to 3pm.

For more information email dmksherefordshire@gmail.com or follow on Facebook or go to dmks.org.uk