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Count Down to Run
TV personality Carol Vorderman began the countdown to this year’s Run for the Future in Bristol and encouraged people to join her in the 5km event in support of prostate cancer.
She also appeal...
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Helping While Sleeping
Thousands of visitors to Bristol throughout the summer helped fund vital research into a disease which claims the lives of more than 10,000 men in the UK every year.
The ‘Pound on the Pillow’ sc...
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Countdown to a Brighter Future
Countdown To A Brighter Future
Maths expert Carol Vorderman led the countdown to the start of the 2009 Run for the Future on the Downs in the Bristol.
A record number of nearly 1,000 people t...
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Rovers Appeal to Fans
Rovers Support for Run
Directors of Bristol Rovers are encouraging the club’s supporters to follow their lead and get tested for prostate cancer.
The Club has adopted Run for the Future, whic...
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Hope for the Future
HOPE for the Future
A team which has every reason to hope for a better future will be taking part in this month’s Run for the Future in Bristol in aid of prostate cancer sufferers.
Not so lon...
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Cadbury Marathon
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4 Sept 09
Treadmill Marathon
Members at Cadbury House Hotel, Health Club and Spa literally ran round the clock for charity when they took part in treadmill marathon to ra...
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A Family Matter
A nurse at Southmead Hospital is taking part in this year’s Run for the Future so that her 15 year old son might have a chance of a life without fear.
Julie Martin’s son Aaron underwent an opera...
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Treadmill Challenge
Members at Cadbury House Hotel, Health Club and Spa will be running round the clock for charity next month.
Members are being invited to take part in a 24 hour treadmill marathon to raise awaren...
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Healthy Option
The Healthy Option
Doctors and nurses at Southmead Hospital will be swapping their uniforms for running kit to raise money for prostate cancer.
Three staff nurses and a nursing assistant from...
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Head to head
Head to head
Two Bristol businesses will be competing head to head when they take part in this year’s Run for the Future.
Paul Mayer will be running alongside colleagues from manufacturers, B...
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Walk for the Future
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July 09
Bristol Run Copied.
Bristol Rotary’s successful annual 5km fun run which has raised over £130,000 for charity is being copied around the UK.
Run for the Futu...
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Hotel raises £3k for cancer research
Pillow Talk for Prostate Appeal
A Bristol Hotel’s scheme to encourage its guests to support a Bristol based cancer charity has produced nearly £3,000 worth of donations.
The Marriott Royal Ho...
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North Somerset Hotel Supports Run
All Change For The Future
One of North Somerset’s top hotels is to ask its guests to help fund research into the early diagnosis and treatment of a disease that claims more than 10,000 lives a y...
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Inspired to Run
A Bristol family whose lives have been touched by cancer are taking part in a 5km charity run to support research into the disease.
Richard Cecil, who’s 62 from Horfield, will be taking part in ...
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St Paul's Carnival Gives Men A Future
One of Bristol’s top community events has joined the campaign to help reduce the number of men dying every year with prostate cancer.
St Paul’s Carnival, which takes place this year on 4 July, h...
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Pedal for Prostate Cancer
Smiley Miley, better known as Tony Miles, led a 10 strong team of riders on a Pedal for Prostate challenge from Bristol to Newquay to raise money for prostate cancer research.
Former Radio One D...
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Rugby Cup Match
Two Bristol rugby clubs are staging a special match in memory of long standing supporter Derek Mayer, who recently lost his battle with prostate cancer.
Frampton Cotterell and Broad Plain rugby ...
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Carol Calls for Girl Power
FAMILY VALUES!
Celebrity Carol Vorderman is appealing to women in the West to unite to look after the men in their lives.
Speaking at the launch of this year’s Run for the Future at the Marri...
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Medical Breakthrough
Medical researchers in Bristol could be as little as five years away from a global medical breakthrough which could save the lives of tens of thousands of men with prostate cancer.
Specialists a...
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Pounds for Prostate Cancer
Bristol Hotel Looks To The Future….
One of Bristol’s leading City Centre hotels had adopted Run for the Future as its charity for the year.
The Marriott Royal Hotel on College Green is suppor...
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Spire Sponsorship Treble
Spire Support Prostate Run
Spire Healthcare, one of the leading private hospital providers in the UK, is to sponsor Bristol’s Run for the Future for a third year.
The 2009 race will take plac...
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Prostate Cancer Symposium
South West Prostate Cancer Research Symposium at UWE
Saturday 28 March 2009 0930 – 1330
Everything you want to know about prostate cancer will be explained at a special event at the Universit...
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Countdown to the future
Countdown to Saving Men’s Lives
Carol Vorderman had the simplest of countdowns to launch this year’s Run for the Future and raise hopes of a new national screening programme for prostate cancer....
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Steamed up for Run
A traditional steam funfair, complete with steam yachts, gallopers and chair-o-planes, will be supporting this year’s Run for the Future in aid of prostate cancer research.
Carters Famous Royal ...
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Widow's Prostate Appeal
A Bristol teacher who’s husband died just 12 weeks ago from prostate cancer has made an emotional appeal to other women to persuade the men in their lives to get checked out for the disease.
Jo-...
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Corporate Challenge
Corporate Challenge
A team of runners from a Bristol commercial law firm has thrown down a corporate challenge to other companies in the City to compete in Run for the Future.
The 5km event, ...
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Ted's a Survivor
Ted’s a survivor …. thanks to his wife!
When Bristol bus driver Ted Joyce was invited to have a prostate cancer test he thought he didn’t need it as he felt so healthy.
He only went because h...
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Redwood Hotel Supports Cancer Appeal
Guests staying at a Bristol Hotel are to be asked to make discretionary donation towards research into the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
Redwood Hotel and Country Club has become a...
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Let them eat cake.....
Let them eat cake……!
A Bristol bakery is baking special cakes to help fund research into prostate cancer.
Redland Village Bakery is selling the cup cakes from all six of its shops in the Bris...
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Carol's Appeal
Carol’s Appeal
TV celebrity Carol Vorderman has made a personal appeal to the people living in the West of England to support this year’s Run for the Future in Bristol in aid of prostate canc...
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Run for the Future Auction
Run for the Future Auction
Supporters of this year’s Run for the Future have a unique opportunity to get their hands on something money ordinarily can’t buy whilst also helping a charity, which ...
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They deserve a medal.....
Riding a gong on the crest of a wave…..
A North Somerset scout troop proved they were more than prepared when they answered an SOS from organisers of this year’s Run for the Future, which takes ...
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Zip Sliding Away
Tommy Banner and Pete Budd from the Wurzels were fitted out with harnesses and helmets at Bristol City Football Club in preparation for a zip slide challenge in aid of prostate cancer research.
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Free Blood tests
Men taking part in the 2008 Run for the Future will be offered free blood tests see if they are at risk from prostate cancer!
The annual event, which takes place on the Downs in Bristol at midda...
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Bristol Company's Cancer Care
A Bristol garden landscape company is encouraging its male staff to have blood tests to check if they have prostate cancer.
Bowland Stone, which is based at Crews Hole Road, St George, has 20 me...
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Noel launches Run for the Future 2008
Noel Offers Men A Deal For Life
TV Presenter Noel Edmonds has launched a charity run which promises men in the South west a better deal and a chance of surviving a disease which kills around 14,...
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Carols for the Future
The organisers of a charity run in Bristol to give hope to the thousands of men in the UK who suffer from prostate cancer are appealing for those who took part to send in their sponsorship monies! ...
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Hope for the Future
Hope for the Future!
Nearly 650 men, women and children took part in a 5km run around the Downs in Bristol at the weekend to give hope to the thousands of men in the UK who suffer from prostate ...
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Research Breakthrough
Research Breakthrough in Bristol!
Money raised from a charity run in Bristol is to be used to fund novel research into ways of improving the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
The mo...
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Ethnic Risk
Ethnic Risk!
Middle aged men in the West with an Afro Caribbean background are at greater risk of getting prostate cancer according to new research.
David Gillatt, Senior Urologist at the Bri...
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Running for Dad!
A Gloucestershire family will be taking part in a charity run next month in aid of prostate cancer - and they’re doing it all for their Dad!
Kirsty Parsons, who lives in Charfield, near Wotton-u...
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Nick's Nudge
Former Olympic athlete, Nick Rose, has appealed for families and friends to encourage men to get themselves checked by their GPs for prostate cancer.
Nick, who’s in his mid 50’s, will be among h...
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It's in your genes
Researchers in Bristol are investigating a revolutionary new approach to the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
It follows the discovery by American scientists of the PCA3 gene, which i...
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Run for the Future Facts
STATISTICS
• Prostate Cancer is the greatest cause of cancer death in men in the UK, having overtaken lung cancer and with over 30,000 sufferers and over 10,000 deaths/ year in the UK it is on a ...
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Something for all the family
The 2007 Run for the Future will have special significance for one West family, who will be competing en masse to support the fight against prostate cancer.
This year’s event is being held on th...
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Sing for the Future
One of the West’s best-known choirs is planning to take part in this year’s Run for the Future organised by Rotary in Bristol in aid of prostate cancer research.
The Bristol Cabot Choir, which w...
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Give A Few Bob
Bob Monkhouse’s ‘Giveafewbob’ TV advert has highlighted the importance of men being aware of the seriousness of prostate cancer.
The disease kills over 10,000 men per year out of 30,000 sufferer...
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A Frank Approach
A Frank Approach!
People taking part in this year’s Run for the Future in the West of England in aid of prostate cancer research will also be helping fund life saving projects around the world -...
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Run for the Future 2007
Rotarians in Bristol have announced plans to stage another Run for the Future later this year to help fight prostate cancer.
Last year’s run raised nearly £63,000 for the Bristol Urological Pros...
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£10,000 for Run for the Future 07
The James Tudor Foundation has donated £10,000 to the 2007 Run for the Future in the South West to support research into the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer affects m...
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Raising Money for the BUI Bristol Prostate Cancer Appeal, Charity no 1025402