A CYCLE ride is set to return this year, this time prepared for Covid-19 obstacles. Organised by Shaftesbury Rotary Club, it is hoped the charity bike ride will be able to go ahead on May 16 in a Covid-secure manner, after falling victim to the virus outbreak last year. Measures will be in place including the event beginning at Castle Hill, enabling social distancing, and staggered starting times. Money raised from sign up fees and sponsors will be donated to Prostate Cancer UK. Whether the cycling novice or a seasoned rider, participants can either take part in a 12, 25 or 50-mile route, boasting the sites of north Dorset.
The Prince of Wales, a patron of Macmillan Cancer Support, said the delayed operations over the last year are causing despair during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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1/1 A CHARITY supporter is planning to round off a year-long fundraising campaign by completing a double marathon five days before Christmas. Graeme Staddon is raising money for two cancer charities and initially set out to complete 12 26-mile runs in as many months. He has so far raised more than £4,000 and has decided to squeeze in an extra marathon - taking the total to13. It will take place on December 20 when he will run/walk/crawl 52.4 miles from West End in Southampton to Sandbanks in Poole. His father-in-law, Tony Rest, a chemistry professor at Southampton University, died of prostate cancer in 2016 aged 73. The following year his father, John Staddon, 79, was diagnosed with breast cancer - a rare condition in men - and had to have an operation.