Girls with a zest for life

HER niece Rachel died of cancer at the age of 17, and now Dee Greenall will be walking in her memory, hoping to raise money and awareness.

She is taking part in the Tesco Walk For Life on June 5 in Hampden Park, Eastbourne; this national find-raising event in aid of cancer research has become a regular fixture for many local walkers and runners.

Dee, of the Manhattan Cafe in Western Road, said: "We have all got members of our family or someone we know that has suffered from cancer.

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My niece had a melanoma, and died when she was just 17, one of the youngest people ever in this country. She started off with just a little mole ... her mother, Jeanette Atkinson, lives in Eastbourne where she is doing a lot of work to make people aware of the risk of melanoma and trying to get the message across to be keep watch on moles."

Dee has already started training for the event with staff member Emma Cruttenden.

"My business partner Helen Crossley has lost her mother to breast cancer, and so we will be walking for her as well. That makes it very important to us."

"Some of our customers have people who have died of cancer; a lot of them are being very supportive to us. So we see this as a way of making people more aware. We like to get involved locally and help out where we can."

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