NHS workers, friends and family, raised a whopping £10,250 for equipment at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester.
They walked 24 miles between Winchester and Basingstoke hospitals to raise money for a new radiotherapy treatment for breast cancer patients.
It was nearly foiled by the discovery of a World War One bomb in the River Itchen on the previous evening so the group started their walk from Easton instead.
Their route took them through Martyr Worthy, Itchen Abbas, over Abbotstone Down, through Brown Candover where the local WI provided much-needed tea and cakes before the last leg along the back of Kempshott and on towards Basingstoke Hospital.
The walk was organised by Tina Devereux and Lorraine Major both of whom work at the hospital and were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 and both had surgery followed by a three-week course of radiotherapy.
Tina said; “The total raised is currently £10,250 which is completely overwhelming.”
The new treatment will give patients a single dose of radiotherapy whilst in theatre.
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