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Maggie s cancer charity fundraiser will run and run By Alasdair Fraser Published: 06:45, 25 January 2021
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Maggieâs Andrew Benjamin.
A cancer charity that brings comfort to sufferers and their friends and family, is set to benefit from a runaway fundraising success.
Hundreds of men and women in and around Inverness have signed up to jog 50 miles by the end of January to raise funds for Maggieâs Highlands.
It amounts to a timely boost for Maggieâs which, like many charities, has been hit by a downturn in fundraising activities amid the pandemic.