Jade Goody’s boys make a poignant card for Mother’s Day

Jade Goody’s young sons have made her cards for Mother’s Day – touchingly unaware they may never see her alive again.

Bobby, five, and Freddy, four, painted the movingly simple tributes for Mothering Sunday.

But a relative will take them to ailing Jade, 27. The star does not want the boys to visit their home and see her on her deathbed.

A family friend revealed...

...“Jade has explained to them she is very sick and is going to live in heaven. They realise something is not right and want her to know how much she means to them.”

The cancer-ravaged celebrity grew worse yesterday as mum Jackiey and husband Jack Tweed kept a vigil at her bedside.

Tormented Jackiey, 50, held her head in her hands and wept as she briefly sat in the garden in Upshire, Essex.

She admitted: “The mood in the house is very sombre.” Jade’s battle has seen the nation take her to its hearts – and may also save thousands of young women’s lives by raising awareness of cervical cancer.

Yesterday, 50 campaigners handed a petition to Downing Street demanding the age for regular smear tests be lowered from 25 to 20, a crusade the courageous star has backed.

Its leader Bob Walker, who lost daughter Claire, 23, to the disease six months ago, warmly welcomed Jade’s support and said: “I’m not worried about her celebrity status.

“She’s a young woman dying at such an early age and leaving two boys behind and that’s what matters. It shouldn’t have to happen to any woman.”

Her spokesman Max Clifford added: “She was there in spirit. If she was well enough she would have been there in person. She wanted to hand the petition in herself.

“Jade has been very vocal because of what has happened to her. Her message is, ‘Don’t let what happened to me happen to you’.”

Earlier this month ministers pledged to review the age threshold once they received a report from medical experts. In 2004 it was raised to 25 in England but in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland it remains at 20.

Mr Walker, accompanied by wife Lynn, said: “We just want the age put back to what it was, because when the minimum age was 20 it worked. If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Their Labour MP Fraser Kemp, who represents Tyneside seat Houghton and Washington East, was also on the march. He said: “It is because of Mr and Mrs Walker’s courageous fight that we are here today.

“There needs to be a consistent approach throughout the country.” Meanwhile, Jade’s relatives were dismayed after OK! magazine published an issue written as though she had already died.

The banner, similar in style to an obituary, read: “Official Tribute Issue 1981-2009…In Loving Memory.

The magazine claimed to feature the former Big Brother favourite’s “final words” as well as tributes from various celebrities. A family source said: “Everyone was really upset. It is premature and insensitive.”

However, the magazine insisted: “It’s a celebration of Jade’s amazing life.”