 The cricket star is halfway through his UK cancer walk |
Sports celebrity Ian Botham is leading a walk through Nottinghamshire to raise money for cancer charities. He began the latest leg of the event in aid of leukaemia research and teenage cancer in Nottingham city centre on Friday morning.
The England cricket star is halfway through a tour of 17 UK cities which is also raising the charities' profile.
He will also open a bone marrow transplant unit at Nottingham City Hospital on Friday afternoon.
The unit is dedicated to the memory of James Skillington from Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire, who died of leukaemia at the age of 22.
His mother Susan Skillington and five friends raised �150,000 by walking from Land's End to John O'Groats in 2002.
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