A BIG-HEARTED Halesowen policeman is set to put his best foot forward as a tribute to his mom who lost her fight with cancer.

Stuart Jones’s mother Gillian Jones was well known in Halesowen and volunteered for 20 years as club secretary for Halesowen Swimming Club.

She died from a brain tumour last May, aged 64.

Now 37-year-old Stuart, who is a policeman at Birmingham Airport, will run the London Marathon in April to raise £2k for the charity Help the Hospices in her memory.

The married father of two from Lapal said: “My mom was wonderful, she was admired by many people.

“For those who knew her, and that was many, she was the person who organised all the collections at work.

“If anything needed doing my mom was the one who sorted it out.

“She was always doing things for other people and with this in mind I decided to try and give something back myself.”

Mom of two and grandmother of six Gillian was diagnosed with a brain tumour in December 2009.

A major brain operation and an intensive course of chemotherapy could not save her and she died just five months after diagnosis leaving husband Frank.

Stuart said the staff at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and at Mary Stevens Hospice in Stourbridge were “wonderfully caring.”

He ran the Berlin marathon last year and will take on the gruelling 26 mile London run for sponsorship. Money raised will be donated to Help the Hospices which wlll share the cash between hospices which support families in their time of need.

Stuart said: “These hospices desperately rely on the generosity of others.”

To sponsor Stuart visit www.justgiving.com/stujones99