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Rail firm aims to fast track cash for cancer support

January 02, 2026

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Shields Gazette

A North East-based rail firm is aiming to fast track donations to a leading cancer support charity.

- by Tom Patterson

From this month, travellers claiming from Lumo's delay repay service will be able to make a donation to Daft As A Brush Cancer Patient Care-which provides free transport for cancer patients across the North of England to get to their vital chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments.

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