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Anna McAree

Derry man keeps memory of wife alive in London Marathon fundraiser

A Derry man who lost his wife, and mother to their two children, to a brain tumour is running the TCS London Marathon in her memory.

Alan Robinson’s wife Nicola, a teacher at Fountain Primary School, suffered for a couple of weeks with headaches and dizzy spells and was diagnosed in 2018 with a diffuse astrocytoma brain tumour.

Nicola underwent two seven-hour craniotomies at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, as well as radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

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