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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Following the success of the London to Paris charity cycle ride that took place last year, we are now planning a second challenge that will take place in June this year. The ride will be a trip down memory lane, starting in London and taking us back to our roots in the town of Tullow before finishing in Dublin. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">The ride</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">In true reflection of Tullow’s entrepreneurial spirit, the 400km route from London to Dublin can only be described as ‘unique’. In short, the route is from London to Dublin…. via France! Here is the planned itinerary:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Meet in Chiswick Thursday morning and make our way to Portsmouth. (75 miles) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Take the overnight ferry across to Caen (France)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Friday 17/06/11</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Make our way west to Cherbourg (85 miles) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Take the overnight ferry across to Rosslare (Ireland) </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Saturday 18/06/11</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Rosslare to New Bridge. Through the Tullow town (76 miles) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Spend the night around New Bridge (Ireland)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Cycle from New Bridge to Dublin. (30 miles). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Fly back on Sunday evening back to London.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">We hope to raise at least <strong>£25,000</strong> that will be donated to three charities. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Like last year, one of these charities will be Spear, a local organisation that works with young people in the Hammersmith, Chiswick, Shepherds Bush and Hounslow areas, providing training to help them find employment. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">The second charity is Care International s one of the world’s three biggest aid agencies. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">And lastly Sparks, whose vision is a world where all babies are given the best possible start in life and where a medical condition or disability at birth is not a barrier to opportunity and fulfilment. </span></p>
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