Gay Essex dads Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow are launching a new haircare range and hair salons to raise money for cancer research.

The couple have formed H2o Haircare following Tony's diagnosis with throat cancer. H2o will open with one salon in Moulsham Street, Chelmsford, at the end of the month.

It will be a launch pad for the new H2o Orlando haircare range, which will be followed at the end of the year by the H2o Aspen skincare range and the H2o Saffron cosmetic range, all named after the couple's three surrogate children.