A crowd of over a hundred parents, staff and pupils gathered in the grounds of Stoke Lodge Primary School on Friday 29th June to witness the unveiling of a bench in memory of Bailey Cooper, a former pupil who sadly passed away last Christmas Eve following a brave 15-month battle with cancer. Bailey, who was nine years old when he
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Pupils at Stoke Lodge Primary School have taken part in a special event to support the family of a pupil, eight year old Bailey Cooper, who recently underwent nearly four months of hospital treatment for a form of cancer. Bailey was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in October last year. He endured four rounds of chemotherapy and steroid treatment at Bristol
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A fitness club in Bradley Stoke has turned pink for the month of October in support of a national breast cancer awareness campaign. Staff at Anytime Fitness, based at the Willow Brook Centre, have replaced their normal purple uniforms with pink ‘cancer awareness’ t-shirts. Heather Williams, Manager at the Bradley Stoke club, said: “Breast cancer is the most common cancer
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Members of two Bradley Stoke families affected by prostate cancer will be taking part in this weekend’s Run for the Future on the Downs to raise funds for research into the disease. The Capels and the Underwoods, who are soon to be linked by the marriage of Sam Capel and Chris Underwood, are being joined by friends and relatives to
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