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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="color: black;">On July 14 2012, we are cycling Act 2 of the Tour de France. A route over 200km (around 130 miles!) with an ascent of over 15,000 feet and 4 main climbs – this is going to be a really tough challenge for us both! We are already training hard, but you could make it easier for us by making an online donation towards our challenge, so that when we’re cycling up those hills we’ve got something to work towards.</span></em></p>
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<p class="Default"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">We’re raising money for the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) Mending Broken Hearts Appeal. This appeal is one of the BHF’s most ambitious projects ever. And the goal is simple – to fund the research that could literally ‘mend broken hearts’.</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">The BHF need to spend £50 million on research to repair damaged hearts. With your support, they could be funding trials with heart failure patients in as little as ten years’ time. </span></em><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="Default"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">We want to raise £25 for every kilometre we cycle, which is why we’ve set ourselves an ambitious target of £5,000! </span></em></p>
<p class="Default"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Please donate towards our challenge. To give an example of the impact your donations could have, if we raise £5,000 we could help fund the equipment which BHF scientists need for a month</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> in their efforts to grow new blood vessels – a vital part of any future therapy to regenerate a damaged heart.</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></em></p>
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<p class="Default"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Andy’s research is currently funded by the BHF which is why we have chosen to support the BHF through this challenge. To find out more about Andy’s work at the British Heart Foundation please follow this link: </span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://mail.campus.gla.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=83a3b0e5aad946cf94aa89abd8676390&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.bhf.org.uk%2fdefault.aspx%3fpage%3d13610"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://www.bhf.org.uk/default.aspx?page=13610</span></a></span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">; and for information on his latest grant and what research this will fund please follow:</span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></em><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://mail.campus.gla.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=83a3b0e5aad946cf94aa89abd8676390&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.bhf.org.uk%2fmedia%2fnews-from-the-bhf%2fheart-bypass-gene-therapy.aspx"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://www.bhf.org.uk/media/news-from-the-bhf/heart-bypass-gene-therapy.aspx</span></a>.</span></em><em></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em>Thanks for your support, Andy and Keith</em></p>