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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eleanor Barlow

Fundraising twins are youngest recipients in Queen’s Birthday Honours

Eleven-year-old twins who have raised £46,000 for charities are the youngest recipients in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in her Platinum Jubilee year.

Elena and Ruben Evans-Guillen, from Warrington, Cheshire, were just six when they took on their first fundraising challenge, of running 100km in a year to raise money for a garden at the town’s hospital, where their mother, Mercedes Guillen Dominguez, works.

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