A LLANGEITHO nursing and health student is taking part in a major charity walk in London to help raise money for Breast Cancer Care next month.

Abigail Davies, who will be among 15,000 walkers taking part in the Moonwalk on the night of 14 May, says she intends to celebrate her 15-mile nocturnal hike with a bottle of champagne the following morning.

The event is organised by Walk the Walk, a grant-making charity that raises money for vital breast cancer causes.

Abi, who turns 38 two days after the walk, said: “I’m hoping to raise thousands of pounds, but we’ll just have to see how it goes.

“I’m trying to highlight the fact that if you have the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene like I do, then you have an 85 per cent chance of developing a very aggressive form of breast cancer.”

Abi’s grandmother sadly died in her 40s from breast cancer and her mother had breast cancer twice in her late 40s, so she took the decision at 35 to have a prophylactic double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer to three per cent.

Anyone who would like to sponsor Abi should go to her Just Giving page http://wtwalk.org/moonwalklondon2016/abigail-2See this week’s south editions for the full story, in shops now or online by clicking the Digital Editions tab at the top of the page