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Sponsor pages: Mike Fennings Andrew Thomas Stewart Lewis John Hibberd James George Glen Ellis Danny Farmer
The Lowe
Syndrome Trust would like to thank all of the 16 cyclists that took part in
a gruelling 350Km cycle challenge over four days through the mountains of
Sicily. The event was a wonderful
success, so far raising almost £25,000 for vital medical research into Lowe
Syndrome, an incurable children’s disease.
The cyclists
taking part were Alf Comparini, Anne Marie Hoyle, Paul Keeling, Neil Buckingham,
Glenn Ellis, Danny Farmer, Dave Ingram , Paul Spelling, Declan Gilley, Simon
Barrett ,Andrew Thomas , George Dilloway ,James George ,John Hibberd , Robert
Levy and Mike Fennings
The team were challenged by hot humid weather and continuous uphill
cycling to reach their destination of Mount Etna, the biggest live volcano in
Europe. The team are pictured below on Mount Etna.
Sadly, one of the cyclists, Danny Farmer, completed the
challenge but had a serious accident on the return to the hotel breaking his leg
and arm requiring four hour surgery to insert metal plates. Danny
pictured in Taormina hospital with Lowe child Oscar.
See news on Danny at : http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/rbnews/4404163.WANSTEAD__Charity_cyclist_takes_a_tumble/
