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Cancer Research UK’s
10 Run!
Photographs and
report by Patrick Trollope
SOUTHPORT was the location for a
massive Cancer Research UK’s 10k Run starting and ending at the
historic Victoria Park on Sunday, 17 October 2010. The event was run
to raise cash for the charity and over 1200 runners took part. It
was the first time this event has been held in Southport and was
hailed as a massive success. The charity is now asking for the
runners to collect and send them their sponsorship money; the money
collected will go to what Cancer Research UK believes is the key to
beating cancer, that is through research, so making sure that as
many people as possible survive. They stressed that "Every
penny raised through Run 10k in Southport is vital to the work of
doctors, nurses and scientists who are discovering new ways to
prevent, diagnose and treat the disease." Also taking part
were a group of Hollyoaks co-stars, past and present: Melissa Walton
and Phina Oruche and Nineties pop star Anthony Kavanagh as well as
Emma Rigby. All of them were taking part in memory of friends or
family members who had died from cancer. Helen Wright, Cancer
Research UK’s Event Manager for Southport, said:- “We are
really grateful to everyone who helped make Run 10k in Southport
such a huge success. The atmosphere on the day was fantastic. It was
incredibly emotional, with many people taking part in memory or
celebration of a loved one or to mark their own cancer journey. The
chances of surviving cancer have doubled in the last 40 years. More
mums, dads, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, friends and
colleagues are alive today in Southport and the North West because
of research. But for every person who survives cancer, another does
not. We have made a huge number of important discoveries which have
changed the way cancer is prevented, diagnosed and treated. Yet our
work remains essential because more than one in three of us will be
diagnosed with cancer at some point in our lives. By taking part in
Run 10k, participants pledged their support to help fund research.
Now we are asking them to keep that promise by returning their
sponsorship money as soon as possible.”
For information on returning sponsorship
money, or to make a donation, visit:-
www.run10k.org.
DID YOU KNOW? Every year around 35,500 people are diagnosed with
cancer in the North West. Every two minutes someone in the UK hears
the words "its cancer." In the North West region,
which includes Southport, around 95 people are diagnosed every day.
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