Colchester boy, 13, completes 100km running challenge in memory of best friend

Hertfordshire dad takes on 100km race in daughter’s memory

On July 12th, Adam Tuckwell and friend, Laura Osborn, will set out to conquer Race to the Stones, a daunting 100km race from Lewknor, Oxfordshire, to the Avebury Standing Stones.   Orla’s story Orla Tuckwell was just two years old when she died of a medulloblastoma, after a year of tough treatment failed to cure her. Orla’s tumour had a mutation so rare that specialists did not know of another case anywhere in Europe. Dad Adam, who lives with w…

Colchester boy, 13, completes 100km running challenge in memory of best friend

A 13-year-old boy from Colchester completed a 100km running challenge for East Anglia's Children's Hospices in memory of his best friend.