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Article: United Kingdom : TCS Fire Safety Services organise sponsored walk to raise money for electicity bill.
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- November 7, 2009
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Byline: Mamta03
A COMPANY has offered to help frantic parents who are struggling to pay the electricity bill to keep their son s life support machines going.
TCS Fire Safety Services, based in Middlesbrough, is organising a sponsored walk to raise money for the rising electricity demands faced by Philip and Michelle Barker. Their son, Liam, 15, has been on life support since birth and relies on two ventilators 24 hours a day to fight a terminal musclewasting disease.
The couple were told he would not live to see his third birthday, but Liam is now believed to be the UK s oldest myotubular myopathy sufferer. The Barkers have been told by their ...