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Martin Beresford is raising money for British Heart Foundation
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Virgin London Marathon 2012 · 22 April 2012 ·

Far too many of us have felt the pain of losing someone we love. With your donations, we power groundbreaking cardiovascular research to save and improve lives, bring hope to families, and keep hearts beating across the UK.

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<p><em>Hey respected people,&nbsp;big time thanks and appreciation&nbsp;for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</em></p> <p><em><strong>2012 LONDON MARATHON COMPLETED IN LITTLE OVER 4 HOURS</strong> - many thanks to all who have donated, especially in such austere times, means an awful lot. Big time thanks and appreciation to your continued support, cheers x</em></p> <p><em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</strong></em></p> <p><em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Here we go again, you know the score, back and raring to go in taking on the little 26.2 mile fun run through the streets of ye olde London town&nbsp;from Greenwich to the Mall, this time running, raising awareness and reaping in the pennies&nbsp;for British Heart Foundation, still in respect of me father.</strong></em></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">SOME KEY FACTS ABOUT HEART DISEASE:</span></strong></span></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Heart disease is the UK&rsquo;s single biggest killer&nbsp;</span></em></p> <p><em>2.6 million people in the UK are living with coronary heart disease (CHD)</em></p> <div><em>Women are more than 3 times more likely to die of CHD than breast cancer&nbsp;</em></div> <div><em><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></span></em></div> <div><em><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Your heart is a muscle about the size of your fist It beats about 70 times a minute &ndash; that&rsquo;s 100,000 beats a day!</span></em></div> <div><em><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></em></div> <div><em><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Y</span></em><em><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">our blood travels 12,000 miles around your body in a day &ndash;same distance from London to Tokyo &amp; back!&nbsp;</span></em></div> <p><em><strong> </strong></em></p> <div style="display: inline !important;"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">&nbsp;</span></strong></em></div> <p><em><strong> </strong></em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em><strong> </strong></em></p> <div style="display: inline !important;"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">WHAT YOUR DONATION CAN PROVIDE</span></strong></em></div> <p><em><strong> </strong></em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em> </em></p> <div style="display: inline !important;"><em><span style="color: #ff0000;">&nbsp;</span></em></div> <p><em> <div style="display: inline !important;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">Provide a lifeline for heart patients</span></em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">&pound;4 could help one of our cardiac nurses provide vital information for a parent whose child has just been diagnosed with congenital heart disease.</span></span></span></em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">Help patients to understand their illness</span></em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">&pound;10 could help us to provide 25 callers with a heart information booklet, helping them to deal with and understand their illness better.</span></em><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">Heartstart </span></em><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">UK</span></em><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;"> training pack</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our Heartstart </span></em><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">UK</span></em><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> scheme teaches members of the public what to do in a life-threatening emergency. &pound;30 could fund a Heartstart training pack to teach people these vital skills.</span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">Fund a Heart Helpline Nurse for a week</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">&pound;500 could help to fund a cardiac nurse working on the BHF Heart Helpline for a full week. Our cardiac nurses enable heart patients and their families to learn more about their heart condition and ways of managing it, to help them take control of their own health.</span></em></p> <br></span></div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em><strong> </strong></em></p> <div style="display: inline !important;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</span></em></span></em></span></span></strong></em></div> <em><strong> </strong></em><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</strong></span></span></em></span></em></span></span></strong></em></strong></em></strong></em> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">PLEASE HELP ME RAISE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT FOR&nbsp;THE BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION</strong></span></span></em></span></em></span></span></strong></em></strong></em></strong></em><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;</strong></p> <em><strong> <div style="display: inline !important;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; 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background-color: transparent; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. 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