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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thanks for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><strong>Run Balmoral 5 & 10k 23 April 2011</strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Team Banchory</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> are supporting </span><strong><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">GASTROCAN</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> (Grampian Gastro-oesophageal Cancer Research Fund) by running either the 5 or 10k Balmoral Run on 23 April 2011. This will be quite an effort for some so please help motivate us and sponsor as much as you can. Any donation will be greatly appreciated and make all the pain worth going through!!</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Founded by Dr Russell Petty, </span><strong><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">GASTROCAN</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> is the only charity raising money specifically for research into stomach and oesophageal cancer. Dr Petty leads the Aberdeen University and NHS Grampian research into the causes and treatments of this devastating disease. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Main aims of </span><strong><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">GASTROCAN</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> include:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 30pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #31849b; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Undertake internationally important cancer research locally in Grampian</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 30pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #31849b; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Enable local patients to benefit from the latest cutting edge treatments for gastric and oesophageal cancer </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 30pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #31849b; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Help recruit the best doctors to work in Grampian to be part of the research</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 30pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #31849b; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Raise awareness of gastric and oesophageal cancer so that patients recognise the symptoms and seek medical help earlier</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - we raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: #31849b; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">All donations will be greatly appreciated – thank you in anticipation. </span></p>