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Bobby Grewal walks the talk at 72,  ₤1m in mind
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LONDON: Dhols kept up the beat and Punjabi songs marked the occasion as a 72-year-old Balwant Singh ‘Bobby’ Grewal began his 500-mile walk last Wednesday from Edinburgh to London to raise one million pounds for research into bowel cancer.  He was given a rousing send-off outside the Scottish Parliament building.

The Scottish Minister for Public Health Shona Robison cut the ribbon to mark the start of Grewal's walk. India's Consul-General in Edinburgh, Ramesh Chander, was at hand to lend the official backing.

Grewal will be covering the 500-mile journey on foot over five weeks and reach the House of Parliament in London on July nine. He has undertaken the venture to raise one million pounds for research into bowel cancer and other bowel diseases at St Mark's Hospital, Harrow, a hospital unique in the U.K.

Punjab-born Grewal is a keen sportsman who migrated to Britain in 1958. His London Marathon feat in just over five hours in 2003 and the 2,500 mile walk and in 2004-5 (aged 68) across India from the North-West frontier to the deep South, has often been mentioned as a great achievement.

The walk raised 100,000 pounds for research into cancer and AIDS.

11 June, 2008
 

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