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MORE than 6,600 women took part in Cancer Research UK’s Races For Life around Aintree racecourse over the weekend.
Organisers hope to have topped £400,000 in sponsorship money across the two Sunday and one Saturday races.
Guest of honour on Sunday was Melanie Aindow, who lost her father, Tom Bate, to cancer in March. She started runners in the second 5km race and then completed the course with her 16-year-old daughter Danika, her mother Margaret, 61, and her sister-in-law Diane Aindow.
Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life 2008 is the UK’s largest women-only fundraising event. Women are invited to walk, jog or run 5km and raise money to help beat cancer.
There is another Race for Life event at Knowsley Hall on Tuesday, July 15, at 7.30pm. To register, click on www.raceforlife.org/northwest
