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PETERBOROUGH TAXI FIRM RAISES £3,000 FOR LOCAL BABY GIRL
The drivers of a Peterborough taxi firm have raised nearly £3,000 in support of a local baby girl who is battling retinoblas- toma.
Shabir Ahmed, manager of Peter- borough Cars, was heartbroken when his beloved grand- daughter Hawwa Amel Hussain was diagnosed with retinoblastoma ear- lier this year, aged just nine months. Now he has joined his family in raising funds and aware- ness for the Childhood Eye Can- cer Trust.
During the World Cup football tour- nament each of the
Peterborough Cars has raised funds for nine-month-old Hawwa
160 drivers, office staff and some cus- tomers donated £1 every time England scored, with the company
giving
£10 per goal. On top of this Peter- borough Cars pledged £50 if England qualified from group stages, £100 to
get
through to the quarter final, £250 to semis and £500 to get to the final. With England'’s great achievement getting through to the semis and scor- ing 12 goals the total amount raised was £2,870; this included donations from customers,
one giving £5/goal and some staff members also don- ated £5-£ 10/goal. The total was donated to the Childhood Eye Can- cer Trust in support of Hawwa, who has just had her fifth round of chemo- herapy in a bid to shrink the tumour in her left eye. Sunny Singh, the Operations Director at Peterborough Cars, said, “We do a lot of fundraising for charities throughout the year but this cause is particularly close to us as Shabir’s
grand-
daughter is currently going through treat- ment for retino- blastoma. All of the
DERBY FIRM OFFERS TO PAY BULK OF FUNERAL COST FOR CRASH VICTIM
A Derby taxi com- pany has donated a substantial amount of money towards the funeral of a mum-of-five, who died in a road tragedy. Lizzy Keenan, 30, died at around 3am on Monday, August 20, in a crash in Derby Road, Chel- laston.
Her partner, Richard Keenan, from Alvas- ton, has appeared in court charged with causing death by dangerous driving. It was reported how an online fund-rais-
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ing campaign had been launched to pay for her funeral. Lizzy’s family were appealing for £2,000 to
be
donated to pay for the service. According to the Derby Telegraph, Derby taxi firm Albatross Cars has donated a substan- tial amount of money towards the service. The compa- ny said Lizzy was a regular customer. Flowers, candles and heartfelt mes- sages of con- dolence were left at
the scene of the crash. They
expressed
sadness at the death and offered support to her fam- ily and friends. The inquest open- ing into Lizzy’s death heard that police officers were called to the inci- dent, where a single vehicle had lost control and collided with a wall. A police watchdog had said it was con- sidering whether or not to investigate the role of Der- byshire police in the
crash because offi- cers were close to the scene at the time.
But later an IOPC spokesperson said: “Following thor- ough assessment of all the information available concern- ing police contact prior to and at the time of the collision we determined that an investigation was not required. The referral has therefore been returned to the force to decide if any further action is necessary."
drivers, staff and even some of our customers got behind the cam- paign, helping to raise maximum funds for the Child- hood Eye Cancer Trust.” Hawwa’s mum Aaliya Ahmed-Hus- sain, 30, said: “I first noticed Hawwa’s eye had a glassy look to it when she was three months old but we all assumed it was because her eyes were changing so quickly and it was nothing to worry about. But when she was eight months old she developed a squint and the glassiness that I used to only see in certain light- ing was there more and more.” Aaliya took Hawwa to the GP who referred them to Peterborough City Hospital for further tests. Within days the family were at the Royal London Hospital, one of two specialist centres for retinoblastoma in the UK, where the
diagnosis was con- firmed. Hawwa, who has lost the sight in her left eye, has since had five out of six rounds of chemo- therapy. She will then be examined again to determine what further treat- ment she needs. “Despite everything she’s been through, Hawwa is still smi- ley, bubbly and full of life. Apart from the hair and weight loss, you wouldn’t know anything was wrong.”
Diane Emery, Fund- raising Manager at the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust, said: “We are extremely grateful to Shabir, Aaliya, everyone at Peterborough Cars and their customers for their amazing fund-raising efforts, during what is an incredibly difficult time for the family. The money raised will help us to sup- port other families affected by retino- blastoma and in- crease awareness of this rare and dev- astating condition.”
OCTOBER 2018
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