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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Hello all and thank-you for taking the time to visit our page,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Some of you may be aware that I am Taylan's uncle and Steve is a very close friend to me who has known Taylan's parents for over 10 years. Steve and I have taken on the challenge to ride 57 miles from London to Cambridge on the 24th July 2011.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Why are we raising money for <em>Brain Tumour Research...</em></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On the 19th of August 2009, Taylan passed away at the age of 7. He had been diagnosed with a very rare and inoperable brain tumour just 10 months prior. As you can imagine this was a great loss to all of us. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Taylan's parents, Andy and Figen have founded Taylan's Project <a href="http://www.taylansproject.com/"><span style="color: #2a42c6; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">www.taylansproject.com</span></a> and are now fundraising for <a href="http://www.braintumourresearch.org/"><span style="color: #2a42c6; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">www.braintumourresearch.org</span></a> to raise awareness and much needed funds. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">In the UK more children and people under the age of 40 die of a brain tumour than any other cancer </span>however research into brain tumours receives less than 1% of the national spend on cancer research.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Taylan was such a special boy with the biggest smile that lifted you every time you saw him. He is sadly missed but never forgotten. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Love you Taylan!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: navy; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Did you know that....</span></strong></p>
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