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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Esther Addley

Kirsty, 11, seeks more Kirstys to help raise money for brain tumour research

Kirsty smiles for the camera
Kirsty Waugh is seeking other Kirstys ‘because they’re the best people, because it’s the best name’. Photograph: Anna Gordon/The Guardian

Calling all Kirstys! A schoolgirl from Tunbridge Wells in Kent is seeking people who share her name to help raise money for research into paediatric brain tumours like the one for which she is being treated.

Kirsty Waugh, who turns 12 on Monday, has already persuaded more than 10,000 Kirstys, Kirsties, Kersties and assorted other variants to plot their locations on a map that shows Kirstys can be found everywhere from Colombia to Malaysia, and even at the Rothera research station in Antarctica.

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