UPDATE - Issue 10 - January 2002
Bike Ride raises £895
Philip Weston, a consultant urologist at Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospital, Wakefield has recently completed a 242 mile cycle ride the length of Wales from Holyhead to Chepstow.
His energetic efforts raised £645 for Prostate Research Campaign UK. He tells us "The ride, with four others from the Thorp Bridge MOB (Men on Bikes), was never intended to be a sponsored event, but grew from a collection at a 40th birthday party 72 hours before the off. To this was added further donations from the patrons and owner of the Tal-Y-Don B&B where we stayed in Barmouth (They deserve a plug - Ed.) and our 'van driver' who donated his 'wages' of £50. Since the ride, BUPA Methley Park Hospital, Leeds has donated a further £250 bringing the total to £895".
Philip has a passion for old cars. As an encore to his bike ride, he wonders whether a nationally sponsored entry of his Lotus Elite in the Monte Carlo Challenge would be worth trying for Prostate Research Campaign UK. I am sure there is one of our readers who would help him organise that (Please get in touch). Meanwhile, we send him our heartfelt congratulations and thanks.