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<div id="id_4db8910378c774921276192" class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">On Monday 30th May 2011 I will be running the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: fuchsia; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Bupa London 10000 </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">for the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: blue; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">.<br /><br />This hospital is very special to me and my family, especially my grandad, they have now saved his life not once but twice. The first some years ago when he suffered from a hiatus hernia, if it hadn’t been for the operation, care and support that the Harefield Hospital gave him he quite simply wouldn’t have survived. Then </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">early last year he suffered a heart attack and was rushed back to the same hospital where they had to operate and insert a stent to open a blocked artery and kept him alive.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">On both occasions he received truly amazing care and support both while he was at the hospital and for some time after and my family can not thank them enough for all they have done.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">About the charity</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK, treating patients from across the country. Money raised through the Charity sponsors pioneering research which helps to understand the causes of these diseases and develop new treatments. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Please dig deep and sponsor me any £'s or pennies you can spare, it all counts.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Thank you so much for any sponsorship you can give to this amazing hospital, and please pass this onto your friends and family so I can try to raise as much as possible.</span></div>