London Marathon

20 days ago

The folks paying £2 each to fight cancer so that they can abuse the FD at Canadian Overseas Petroleum

As Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL) shares head to an inevitable zero, its FD Ryan Gaffney is trying to show what a good fellow he is by raising a paltry sum to fight cancer by running the London Marathon. Given his gratuitous troughing I am surprised Ryan is not making a big pledge himself.

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2196 days ago

Photo Article: 75 year old Fleet Street Legend Brian Basham finishes Marathon in less than 8 hours

Well done to my friend the legendary hack, evil PR spinner and raconteur Brian Basham who managed to finish the London Marathon in 7 hours, 59 minutes and 33 seconds - I doubt I could do that today, let alone at 75.

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2243 days ago

Sponsor PR and journalism legend Brian Basham as, aged 75, he runs the London Marathon to fight prostate cancer

Prostate cancer lies twentieth in the ‘league table’ of annual cancer research spend. It kills slightly more men than breast cancer kills women but it gets half the funding. That’s why treatment lags ten years behind breast cancer and many years behind some other forms of cancer. Brian Basham is a legend among journalists

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