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2 The Link Magazine • June 2001

LEARN TO DANCE ,ES OM INDIA Race for Life, Sunday 10 June, Lydiard Park
• Exquisite jewellery Ladies, it's time to exercise and raise money for other women.
SALSA • Sumptuous fabrics
Swindon is holding one of 71 events across the UK with the aim of
Start any week at 7pm • Fine paintings & much more! topping last year's total of £5 million for research into cancers that affect
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Monda : Atrium Visit Blunsdon Village Hall women.
Wednesday: Zu Bar, Shaw Ridge Saturday 2 June Last year 1,400 women and girls took part in the first ever five
f.f.i. Ritmo Latino: 812177 10am - 4pm kilometre Race for Life held in Swindon and raised £70,000. Organisers
Walk in - dance out! Tel: 01793 497966 / 782786 are hoping for 2,000 participants raising £100,000 on 10 June.
The entry fee is £7.50 for women, £4.50 for girls under 16. Entry forms
are available from Swindon Council recreation centres, or by calling
the Race for Life hotline 08705 134 314, or via the web at
www.imperialcancer.co.uk/ raceforlife
• Full range of Quality Plants & Trees POTS FULL OF Entry on the day will only be possible if there is space available.
• Self contained Water Features COLOUR FOR
• Ornamental Stoneware & Bird Baths YOUR SUMMER Twin Peaks team rise to the challenge
• Rockery Stone and Paving , GARDEN
Over two hundred Swindon women, and a few men, joined 8,000
• Wooden Garden Furniture ,f others from across Britain to walk an overnight marathon through the
• Friendly, ExpertAdvic s streets of London on 12 and 13 May wearing bras decorated with
plastic flowers, flourescent caps and silver space blankets, in aid of
Breakthrough Breast Cancer and the Bristol Cancer Help Centre.

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Installers of quality replacement PVCu
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Some of the team before leaving S<<'indon. In the background, Kez Neale
windows, doors and conservatories holding his proposal banner with his son John, unbeknown to Michelle
Thompson, standing fourth from left, in the shades
Also fascia boards, soffits and claddings
For the second year Swindon miles in the early hours; the train-
Styles and had by far the largest team and ing paid off. Margaret Cook
elegance to J ^ coordinator Eunice Salmon reck- walked almost twenty miles with
complement ons their sponsorship could con- a sprained ankle and unfortunately
tribute well over £40,000 to the Sue Peachy had to be taken to hos-
your home
total of £1 million raised. pital with salt deficiency."
Free uotations 'i1 ^ t ^' ' Beforehand over £1,000 was col- Eunice and Denise Jones did the
and computer ^,e,lf f lected at Sainsbury's Bridgemead course in 5 hours and 59 minutes,
aided desi n ►^ _^ • ! ^1; ___ jj and Tregoze School children con- and were in the first ten to finish.
tributed £200 on a non-uniform day. But Michelle Thompson from
service I
"It was an amazing experience to Moredon was delayed when her
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Special rates be with so many women committed boyfriend Ke Neale of Nythe held
on supply only to find a cure for breast cancer and to up a banner proposing marriage a
provide support for women with mile from the finish. She said'yes.'
FREEPHONE 080 810 89955 the disease," said Eunice." • CharlieDimmock's support for
"It was hard work to walk 26 Breakthrough. Picture on page 28.