Steve Brine says he is blown away by support shown to Breast Cancer charity fundraiser held in The Square.
Winchester MP Steve Brine hosted a very special event in Winchester, Friday 10 September 2010.
The Square was transformed into a blaze of pink as people gathered to raise funds for Breast Cancer Care and raise awareness of the disease.
All the businesses based in The Square helped raise funds and the following outlets served Strawberry Tea in aid of the charity which supports women and their families when diagnosed:
Gourmet Pizza
Cafe Monde
Slug and Lettuce
La Place
The Eclipse Inn
The Old Vine
Cadogan and James Deli
Sally Taylor from BBC South Today made a special guest appearance to support the event.
Members of the Winchester Breast Cancer Support Group were on hand to help raise awareness of their group and a local-based newly formed string quartet played to add to the atmosphere.
Steve Brine said; "I am just blown away by how much everyone has risen to the challenge. The businesses have been brilliant and I am hugely grateful to them for such stoical support.
"I would also pay tribute to Janette Munro Ford from my office who did so much to make today such a huge success.
"In spite of all the work in recent years we still lose 12,000 women a year to breast cancer and that is heartbreaking. We have to do better and the battle now in my opinion must focus on the threat posed by secondary breast cancer, screening for older women and access to increasingly expensive cancer drugs. We must never let up also on the early screening where such progress has been made in recent years."
You can watch a short-film from the event via www.stevebrine.tv
The event raised just over £1,000 for Breast Cancer Care.
Pictured; Sally Taylor from BBC South Today very kindly took time out of her busy day to support the event
More information ...
View Daily Echo coverage of the event by selecting the ‘Download...’ link below...
Breast Cancer Care - www.breastcancercare.org.uk
Winchester Breast Cancer Support Group - Joan 01962 880067