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Intrepid duo cycle 243 miles in 24 hours to help blind Haverhill boy with a brain tumour




Steve Morris, Lee Taylor and Cayden Le Roy-Tickner at Great Yarmouth (3128370)
Steve Morris, Lee Taylor and Cayden Le Roy-Tickner at Great Yarmouth (3128370)

A father and son completed a 24-hour charity cycle ride in soaring temperatures to raise £3,000 for the treatment and care of a 10-year-old relative with a brain tumour.

Steve Morris, 58, of Haverhill and his son Lee Taylor, 37, of Steeple Bumpstead, cycled 243 miles from Haverhill to the north Norfolk coast and back on July 8 and 9.

Their original target was to cycle 266 miles in the

24 hours, but the heat meant they fell a little short.

They undertook the challenge to raise the money for Steve’s grandson and Lee’s nephew, Cayden Le Roy- Tickner, of Haverhill, who has lost his eyesight due to a malignant brain tumour.

The duo said the heat was ‘excruciating’ but they managed. and ‘thinking about Cayden’ was the one thing that kept them going.

Cayden’s dad, Gav Taylor, took him down to meet Steve and Lee along their route at Great Yarmouth.

Cayden had 91 per cent of the tumour removed by surgery in March and is now having to undergo chemotherapy treatment.

If the chemotherapy fails to work he must undergo more surgery, although, as Steve has previously explained, that is a ‘last resort’.

The £3,000 will be used to provide equipment and help to improve Cayden’s quality of life.