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“The more ridiculous the costumes the better.” raising money for young carers.
LYNN NEWS YOUNG CARERS’ APPEAL: Footballers’ fancy dress walk for appeal
REFFLEY ROYALS FC Reffley Royals with supporters, who will be doing a sponsored walk for charity, at their first rain-soaked training session of the coming season
MEMBERS of a football team will be putting their best feet forward in fancy dress for the Lynn News Young Carers’ Appeal.
The Reffley Royals adult team, who practice in River Lane, Gaywood, will be taking part in a five-kilometre sponsored walk on Sunday, August 28, from noon.
It will start and finish at the Swan Inn, Nursery Lane, South Wootton.
The players, as well as their partners and children, will make their way along Common Lane, South Wootton, Castle Rising Road, South Wootton, Priory Lane, North Wootton, Ling Common Road, North Wootton, Lynn Road, North Wootton, Grimston Road, South Wootton, and Low Road, South Wootton.
Anyone can take part and the special event was organised by Rob Back, Reffley Royals Football Club manager.
He told the Lynn News: “The more ridiculous the costumes the better. We want to raise as much money as we can. It will be a fun day for everybody.”
In the past the team has raised money for the Lynn News Special Care Baby Appeal and the Help for Heroes charity.
The decision not to recommend Halaven deprived thousands of women of hope
Lift ban on cancer drug, says woman who it has helped
Health bosses were today urged to reverse their ban on a life-extending breast cancer drug.
Trials show that Halaven can give some patients an extra few months of life. But today the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence banned the breakthrough treatment, which works by blocking tumour growth.
They are not recommending it for patients with advanced breast cancer because they say it is not cost-effective at an average £9,390 for a full course – equivalent to five treatment cycles.
Now one of the first British patients to benefit from the drug, an experimental treatment derived from a chemical found in sea sponges, has called on Nice to think again.
State-of- the-art care home could be completed by the end of next year
Joy as £6m care site takes shape
WORK on a long-awaited state-of- the-art care home could be completed by the end of next year.
Grwp Gwalia’s new nursing care home on land to the rear of the existing Mynydd Mawr Hospital in Upper Tumble looks on track to be completed by the end of 2012.
A spokeswoman for Gwalia — the care and housing provider — said: “Since March the foundations and other groundworks have been completed and the building’s footprint is now starting to take shape.
