SCOTT Glynn is urging people to sign up to be organ donors, after it was revealed that the well-known Tranent fundraiser and community figure has liver cancer.

The after-dinner speaker and charity fundraiser was diagnosed with liver cancer last month, and underwent tests at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh last week to determine if he was able to receive a transplant.

Mr Glynn is now on the organ transplant list but admitted that the week of testing was “like being given a life sentence or a death sentence”.

Scott, a former president at Ross High Rugby Club and chairman of youth group Recharge, told the Courier: “I’m positive and strong and I will fight this. And I just want to encourage people to go to their doctors and to sign up to be an organ donor. I put a post on my Linkedin page and it’s had 39,800 views; if even 10 per cent of the people who have read that sign up then some positive can come from it.”

Scott, who lives on Tranent’s Elphinstone Road, also revealed how he discovered he had liver cancer.

“I found out I had fatty liver in about 2001 and I’ve been getting check-ups for that since,” he said.

“It started with blood tests every three months, then six months, and recently it has been a year.

“I went in February and the doctor wasn’t happy with the results so they sent me for a CT scan, which came back clear.

“The doctor still wasn’t happy so they sent for an MRI scan and that’s when I was diagnosed with cancer of the liver.”

He added: “I’ve got four tumours, so they said they couldn’t operate because they couldn’t remove the four. The transplant was my only option.”

The charity fundraiser, who has helped raise more than £172,000 from the Walk with Scott venture he launched to mark his 50th birthday in 2013, also encouraged anyone with similar symptoms to visit their GP He said: “I’d lost weight without really any reason and I was tired all the time – exhausted tired – and I lost my appetite.

“I kept getting almost ‘man-flu’ every couple of weeks but I didn’t think anything of it.”

As to what happens next, he said: “I’ve just got to sit with my phone all the time and be ready in case it rings.”

Scott also revealed that 30-year-old son Gareth has signed up to be a living organ donor to help his dad.

Scott added: “It is not a straightforward process – it’s a big operation so Gareth gets almost the same testing and assessments as I had last week.”

To sign up to become an organ donor, visit www.organdonationscotland.org