The Annual Service and the Continuing Battle Against Cancer

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WHEN a Pause for Hope service was held for in Glasgow a few years ago, organisers arranged for counsellors to wait discreetly at the back of the church in case members of the congregation needed their help.

They sat twiddling their thumbs. "They were completely redundant because people came out feeling really good," smiles Professor Ray Donnelly, the man who first came up with the idea of the annual service - held in Liverpool for the past 13 years - for cancer sufferers, their friends, family, medics, scientists and charities.

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The Annual Service and the Continuing Battle Against Cancer

"The classic example of that is Bishop David Sheppard.

"When he gave the address he came into the cathedral in a wheelchair looking cold and very old and very tired.

"He sat at the front in the wheelchair, and then he got up and gave his homil...

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