<p class="pt"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">I am taking to the streets for a</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">&nbsp;new challenge and really appreciate it if you could spare just a few moments to help me make a huge difference to cancer sufferers&rsquo; and their loved ones.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">I am running the Reading Half Marathon on Sunday, April 1 in my part in a groundbreaking campaign to bolster lifesaving cancer treatment at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">I am raising funds for the Reading Chronicle&rsquo;s Acelerator Appeal to raise &pound;100,000 towards a new radiotherapy machine.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;">Please consider making a donation towards the appeal? I know money is tight and so many people are doing sponsored events but I would be eternally grateful if you could spare as much as you can. Cancer knows no boundaries &ndash; it strikes people of all ages, colours and creeds and this is a chance to help improve people&rsquo;s prospects against this terrible illness.</span></p> <p class="pt" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">For further details about the Accelerator Appeal and stories from patients helped by lifesaving treatment see below...</span></span></p> <p class="pt" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2012/02/03/56907-race-is-on-for-pound100000-accelerator-appeal/">http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2012/02/03/56907-race-is-on-for-pound100000-accelerator-appeal/</a></p> <p class="pt" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/reading/articles/2012/02/18/57321-brave-mum-backs-our-accelerator-appeal/">http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/reading/articles/2012/02/18/57321-brave-mum-backs-our-accelerator-appeal/</a></p> <p class="pt" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/mobile/news/reading/articles/2012/02/11/57128-i-owe-my-life-to-rbh-centre/">http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/mobile/news/reading/articles/2012/02/11/57128-i-owe-my-life-to-rbh-centre/</a></p> <p class="pt" style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="pt" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br></span></span></p>