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Journalists plan charity walk in colleague's memory

Colleagues of award-winning journalist Adrian Sudbury who died of leukaemia aged 27 last year are continuing to raise money in his memory.

Huddersfield Examiner reporter Adrian Sudbury passed away last August after a two-year battle with the disease.

Now 20 of his Examiner colleagues are doing a sponsored walk this week in aid of the Anthony Nolan Trust, which provides hundreds of life-saving bone marrow donors every year.

The journalists will be taking part in a seven-mile circular walk from Meltham, near Huddersfield, on Sunday.

Examiner reporter Katie Campling, a friend and colleague of Adrian, is one of those taking part in the walk.

She said: “Adrian was dedicated to supporting the work of the Anthony Nolan Trust. It was thanks to the bone marrow donor register they run that he got a transplant, which gave him an extra year of life.

“He was always positive even when he was ill and doing this walk is one way we can remember him by doing something positive ourselves.

“Adrian spent his final months campaigning to raise awareness about bone marrow, blood and organ donation. Compared to that, a seven-mile walk is the least we can do!”

Adrian began a campaign to raise awareness about bone marrow donation in May 2008, just after learning his leukaemia was terminal. His aim was to get more people to sign up as bone marrow donors.

To sponsor the team visit www.justgiving.com/examiner