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McLaren fishing challenge raises funds for charity

Indexed: Thu Sep 04, 2008 @ 01:30:18PM 2 months 4 weeks ago

Earlier this week the famous circular lake at the McLaren Technology Centre was fished for the very first time. The fishermen were 13-year-old Liam Fairhurst, an ardent McLaren fan, and the team's Finnish race driver Heikki Kovalainen. Liam has been fighting cancer for the past three years, as well as raising money for the children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent in memory of his friend, Jack Wilkinson, who died of the disease. Over the past 20 months, he has raised in excess of £250,000...

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Source: Formula1.com - http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/9/8305.html
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