Staines widower walks Isle of Wight in aid of Weybridge Sam Beare Hospice (From Staines Guardian)

Staines widower walks Isle of Wight in aid of Weybridge Sam Beare Hospice

11:10am Wednesday 24th June 2009

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A man who lost his wife to cancer last year has raised more than £2,500 for the Weybridge hospice which cared for her.

Widower Paul Smith, 48, from Staines, walked 16 miles a day round the Isle of Wight earlier this month, with his son and four other friends and relatives.

The team got through several packets of blister plasters and came close to landslides on their 67 mile coastal walk for the Sam Beare hospice.

The hospice cared for his wife Suzanne, who died this February, after she had secondary liver cancer diagnosed last April.

He embarked on the challenge as a way of saying thank you.

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