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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Persimmon Homes Yorkshire Coast to Coast Challenge - 26, 27 & 28 May 2012</span></span></span></strong></span></span>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">A team of Persimmon staff are taking on the Coast to Coast challenge in aid of Charity. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We will be cycling over 140 miles across </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">England</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> from Whitehaven on the west coast through the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lake District</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> hopefully arriving three days later in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sunderland</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">The team are: Steve Holmes, Lee Kilby, Jon Birkin, Simon Winship, Paul Saunders, Richard Hosie, Ian Wilson, Paul Fairlamb and Cate Palmer.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Charity we are supporting is </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">St Leonard</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">’s Hospice which is based in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">York</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Hospice needs to raise a staggering £3.4 million each year to be able to offer specialist care for people with life threatening illness, mainly cancer. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many of our lives have been touched by cancer and we have lost loved ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The care and support the Hospice provides makes the most difficult of times bearable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">Please give generously and sponsor the team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you</span></span></p>
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