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Radio Cambridgeshire,17 mins

It's a Christmas Carol for Team Dodkin

Chris Mann

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A Wisbech family are going to the Princess of Wales' Carol Concert at Westminster Abbey. The five members of the Dodkin family have received the invitation for Sarah's great work raising awareness of Batten's disease which affects her two sons Finley and Harrison. Sarah completed a 100 km walk around Wisbech (blindfold so that she could experience how her son’s see the world every day) to raise awareness of Batten’s Disease Family Association. Batten’s Disease. The degenerative neurological disease is extremely rare and affects vision, memory, physical and mental ability as well as drastically reducing a person’s life-span

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