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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As you may know, on the 27 May 2012 I am once again taking on the challenge of running to support Breakthrough Breast Cancer, by competing in the </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: fuchsia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Edinburgh Marathon Team Relay</span></strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: fuchsia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">with <strong>three of my fantastic colleagues </strong>from the Western General Hospital. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">As a breast cancer surgeon I am well aware of the devastating impact of the disease on thousands of women across Scotland, which is why funding Breakthrough’s work is essential. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In 2010 and 2011 I ran the Great North Run and Great Scottish Run half marathons, which were hard work but a fantastic experience, and the support I received was incredible. Last year I was delighted to be joined by a running team of </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: fuchsia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">‘Mike’s Marvels’ </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">- former patients, their relatives and friends of all ages who took on the challenge to run with me - and we raised over <strong>£21,000</strong>.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: fuchsia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I would be so grateful for any support you could give.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> All of the money raised will help Breakthrough continue to save lives and change futures throughout Scotland and fund my work with the breast cancer research unit in the Western General. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Your support was invaluable and we were overwhelmed by your generosity. Yet there is still a long way to go! </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1c1c1c; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">So far I have raised over <span style="color: #ff00ff;">£35,000 </span>through incredible support, and I’d love to be able to </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">reach the<strong> £50,000 </strong>mark </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1c1c1c; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">this year to make a real difference to everyone affected by breast cancer. That means </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: fuchsia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">raising another £15,000 this year</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1c1c1c; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> – with your help I know I can do it.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I would also be grateful if you could ask anyone you think might like to run with me to sign up to</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: fuchsia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> join my running team ‘Mike’s Marvels’</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">. They can <strong>enter their own relay team of four people </strong>and run alongside me on the day. The more team members we have, the more money we can raise to improve detection, diagnosis and treatments for everyone affected by breast cancer. If you know of anyone who might be interested please ask them to contact <a href="mailto:mikesmarvels@breakthrough.org.uk"><span style="color: #2a42c6;">mikesmarvels@breakthrough.org.uk</span></a> or phone 0131 226 0761 – I’d love to welcome them to our team.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">Please help us continue to save lives by donating now. With your help we can breakthrough breast cancer. </span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #ff33cc; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can’t do this without you. Thank you so much.</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mike </span></span></p>