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Perthshire contractors embark on cross-UK bike relay to raise cash for Caitlin's rare sight loss condition

Precious daughter Caitlin (8) is one of just seven Scots youngsters suffering from a little-known condition which threatens to snatch away their sight before the teenage years.

Now doting parents Liam and Ashley Wilkie are pushing ahead with the second phase of a remarkable fundraising campaign which has already topped the £100,000 mark, for research into the genetic condition Bardet Biedl Syndrome.

Symptoms include heart and kidney failure, obesity, learning difficulties and sight loss, usually by the teenage years.

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