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Article: We don't need any tea Mr Blair, just help us to save our brave Alice; FAMILY MEETS PM OVER BONE MARROW PROMISE.(News)
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- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2001
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Byline: SHERON BOYLE
TUESDAY will be a big day in the life of courageous Alice Maddocks. It's the day her mum and dad will visit Tony Blair at Number 10 and try to hold him to his promise - to help save her life.
"We won't be nervous," says Carol Maddocks, whose daughter has a rare blood condition and desperately needs a bone marrow transplant. "We don't want tea and biscuits. We know that his time is precious - but so is Alice's.
"The drugs she takes can cause blindness, deafness and organ failure so the quicker a bone marrow match is found, the ...