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unable to walk because of spinal cancer, wrote two books and rope --

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and raised tens of thousands of pounds.

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I am Nicole Dryburgh and I was first diagnosed with cancer when I

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wa want through a range of different emotions from being

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really upset too angry and then just feeling really determined to

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get on with it. I I gine who has left wall

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of the mark than the call. She personally fought cancer three

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times and also not being able to see anything and she could not walk

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or here. That meant she had to overcome such extraordinary

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disabilities. All she wanted to do was help others. -- left more of

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the mark than the coal. I do what I do because I love it and I want to

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ma marence. It is my way of giving something back and leaving

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my mark on the world so that when I am corn I am not forgotten.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds

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A familiar walk along the seafront in Kent has many memories for a

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cold's mother. She was lively, very likely. Happy, funny and positive.

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It is her positivity more than anything that shone through that if

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she wanted to do something, she did it and nothing stopped her. Come

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here, good girl. She died unexpectedly at the age of 21 from

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a brain haemorrhage after facing many challenges in her short life.

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She has a stone. Oh my God expat she had been left blind and unable

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to walk through spinal cancer and then tumours destroyed her hearing.

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But despite that, she broke two books, ran her own website and

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raised tens of thousands of pounds to help other young cancer

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sufferers. My name is Nicole Dryburgh, I am 18... She certainly

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left her mark on the world. So many people wanted to come and pay their

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respects to her. We held it in Canterbury Cathedral. About 300

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people attended. Everybody was given a pink feather and they could

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make a wish for her. Before she lost her hearing, she always had

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the radio on so she used to listen a lot of people. She liked a

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particular song. And the scene of the sum agreed to come and sing it

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at the cathedral. -- singer of the song agreed. Do not feel pity, do

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not fill me sympathy, do not think the poor girl because I am not.

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not cry Rydon -- cry while reading the book. Stick to these rules and

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we will get along great. I was diagnosed with cancer when I was 11

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and I had an operation and eight weeks of daily radiotherapy to

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treat it. Two years later, I had a brain haemorrhage and discovered by

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cancer had come back. Within a week of going into hospital, I slipped

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into a coma, and was paralysed by a stroke. Did lack of oxygen to my

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brain, I completely lost my sight which has never repaired itself.

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They then explained I only had about two months to live. I felt

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determination. Determination to prove everybody wrong. And

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determined to fight for my life. I then had chemotherapy which I

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finished at 15. At 17, I relapsed again and had more chemotherapy.

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She is an extraordinary person supplies welcome Nicole Dryburgh.

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Towards the end of my chemo, I started having agonising pain in my

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left ear. I saw three different doctors who basically said nothing

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was wrong. Months later, I hadn't MRI scan which discovered I had

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something in each year and six months later, my hearing was

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complete destroyed. I would like to thank everybody here for what you

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are doing. You are helping improve the lives of people like me and it

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is appreciated. Please carry on with it. Thank you. I went through

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a range of different emotions from being the upset to angry and then

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just feeling really determined to get on with it. She spent a lot of

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time as a patient at King's College Hospital in south London. But now,

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she's going back for another reason. Her talent, to raise tens of

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thousands of pounds for a special children's the new rehabilitation

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unit. You are on a ledge! Your feet and on a ledge. Are you sure that

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is not the sky? No! You are OK. go. I am not letting go! You are

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And My God! I didn't break anything! Well done. You did the

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well. It is a brilliant way to end my fundraising. The money will be

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going to new road rehabilitation. White target was �30,000 and I have

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now raised around �43,000. The equipment that will be in that room

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will be much better than it would have been if it was only �30,000. I

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am really pleased. I need a cup of tea. She was inspirational.

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Amazingly strong spirited. Joyful and she lived life to the full and

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it has been a lesson to me that you can do that no matter what the

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circumstances. She has left a lasting legacy both in the

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inspiration she has given and the fantastic facilities she has left

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The room is called Nicole's Sweets. We are going to have one Peter Buck

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each bed. It is a new rope rehabilitation room. It will have

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special equipment for children recovering from brain spiral

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injuries. The NHS can only do so much. We would not have

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environmental control where disabled people can do everything

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from turning the television on to controlling the lighting in the

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aquariums. All of the other specialist equipment. It has all

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the bells and whistles that we wanted to make the most of

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everything for the young people Her determination to overcome her

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disabilities and do what she could to help other young people going

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through similar experiences brought her many awards. When they say how

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can one person make a difference, the person who created penicillin

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made a difference. One person can make a difference and she has done

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that. She is a shining example to other young people. Goodbye.

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Congratulations on winning this award. It is brilliant. What does

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it feel like to be here? I feel very important. We are so proud to

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present the 25th the award to Nicole Dryburgh. -- to present the

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award to Nicole Dryburgh. Congratulations. Amazing. It is a

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real honour to get the award because it is such a special one in

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memory of Princess Diana and the work she did. To receive it is

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really special. What an incredible girl. She has the most amazing

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sense of humour. An intelligent girl with so much to give. She has

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raised so much money for teenage cancer. She is incredible.

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younger viewers wanted to give a special prize to Nicole Dryburgh,

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acknowledging her remarkable I wrote my book to give people hope

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and to show to never give up and keep fighting, make the most of

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your life and what you have got. Our next young citizen award goes

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to 19-year-old Nicole Dryburgh. When she received a brutally young

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citizen award in 2008, she revealed her wish-list of things she wanted

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to achieve. I would love to have really long hair down my back. I

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have lost mind twice to chemotherapy so I would love to

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have the feeling of long hair. I would also like to go shopping in

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New York. Wobble on the cobbles at Coronation Street. I would also

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like to meet Prince Harry because I like a rebel and I think he would

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be really nice to meet. Quite a list, you may think. But over the

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next year she set about achieving I still cannot believe that died

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and the New York! I do not know how to explain it. It is brilliant! I

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love the atmosphere. It is so calming and relaxing! It is just

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lovely. Ready? Oh my God! I love animals and just being able to feed

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them is brilliant. I cannot believe I just fed a cow. It is a cow. It

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is a cow, I am not calling you one. Her special visit included getting

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up close the some of the zoo's more unusual residents. Did you feel her

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claw? Yes. It does everything upside down except one thing. She

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The snake is kissing your hand. my God. At least he is polite.

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Going to the sea was my favourite day out. Just getting to hold the

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animals and the different animals as well, such as an armadillo, a

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big it Fox which I could never imagine, I could get to do that.

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That is lovely. Going home tomorrow, what you think

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of New York? I love it and I want to come back.

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The Metropolitan Museum has over 200 words for it. She had so many

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ideas and memories of things that she wanted to do. Every time she

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would say something, someone would say, you cannot do that. You cannot

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fly to New York, you cannot ever walk again.

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That is really lifelike. started to write a wish-list to

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show people that wishes can come true. Everything that she wished

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for did come true. She wrote a book. Eventually she wrote two books. She

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went to New York, and at sailing, and I think she wanted to meet

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Prince Harry, which she did as well, which was lovely. Just her and

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Prince Harry at Clarence House. It went brilliant. He is just

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lovely. He was down to earth and funny. Like I imagined, so I am

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glad that he turned out to be like that.

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Her friends used to come round and talk about what they have done such

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as driving their cars, and what she cannot do, and she would come back

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and say, have you ever had tea with a prince?

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Prince Harry sent a special message when Nicole embarked on her next

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fundraising venture, the launch of Nicole's find at Downing Street.

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Her goal to raise �100,000 to equip a specialist teenage Cancer Trust

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Unit at the Surrey branch of the Royal Hospital.

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He is going to read you a very special message that I received

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yesterday, from a certain lovely young prince.

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I know that Nicole will achieve this remarkable goal. Her

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determination and resolve to help others is simply phenomenal. It is

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a huge privilege for me and to wish Nicole the very best of luck and I

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look forward to hearing about the challenge in ways that she will

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Every day in the UK, six teenagers and young adults are diagnosed with

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cancer. So right now, while we are all here, having fun and drinking

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tea, six young people's lives have been turned completely upside down.

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I know that feeling, and that is why I am so determined to help

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raise money and awareness for teenage Cancer Trust.

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Among the many fundraising activities she planned, a chocolate

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ball, a fun event but with a very serious message.

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I am going to reveal it to you. just eradicated any excuse that you

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thought you had for not helping. Everything that you think is kind

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of stopping you from doing the kind of things that she did, it is still

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no way near where she was dealing with on a daily basis.

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The way that she dealt with it was just incredible, and even what she

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achieved, even if she was not blind them in a wheelchair, it would

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still be amazing. She was devastated by what happened

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to her. All her dreams were dashed. She cannot be in the police force

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and certain ideas that she wanted to do when she was younger, the

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fact that she was helped a lot by some charities when she ended up in

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a wheelchair and blind, she thought it would be nice to pay them back

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and say thank you, and to a couple of small fundraising events. When

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she started, she decided that she enjoyed doing it, and the joy she

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got from giving, of the winning cheque at the end to somebody, it

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gave her a lot of pleasure. I love it, all of it, from coming

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up with ideas to organising things, to the event itself, and then

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counting the money, and seeing what a difference it can make. The new

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teenage Cancer Trust unit is part of the Oaks centre for children and

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young people in Surrey. One of the largest children's cancer centres

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in Europe. The Oaks centre was opened by the Duke and Duchess of

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Cambridge in September. The teenage Cancer Trust unit will admit its

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first patient cent. This pink room was inspired by Nicole.

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She would love it because there is so much pink. She set out to raise

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an extraordinary amount of money, which was �100,000, but amazingly

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ended up racing in her lifetime and her legacy, �150,000, which is the

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equivalent of paying for a patient's bedroom at our new unit.

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The facilities for teenagers in hospital is not great. -- are not

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great. We do not belong in the children's wards so we need

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something in between. It is the goals that she had in her

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life to be able to help other people, she went through a lot but

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she thought of other people as well, and thought that if I am in

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hospital with crying babies as a teenager, it is not something that

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she wanted to do, so she wanted to help teenagers go into a room where

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they could to adopt things. That is where she has done. -- Baker do

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adult things. Whenever they met Nicole, most

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people went away thinking, if she can do it, so can I. That is what

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she wanted, she wanted people to believe in themselves, and if they

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want to do something, to set their minds to it and do it.

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I do not write anything directly about her, but there is a song

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called, I am not giving up yet, which is definitely it in the right

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space. But I should do. If you look at this would, we had

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10 beds in this ward, and two are in a cold's sweet. It is a reminder

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Nicole's legacy is bricks-and- mortar at the hospital, she was so

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much part of that, from the very early days, sadly she is not going

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to see it open, but many people will benefit as a result.

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Still to the day, she is the most inspiring human being that I have

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