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Bone marrow project to go national

(UKPA)

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A scheme to educate young people about bone marrow donation inspired

by a journalist who died of leukaemia will be rolled out across the UK,

Schools Secretary Ed Balls said.

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Lifesaver (R & project is the legacy of Sudbury, a

27-year-old reporter, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, who died in

August last year after a two-year battle with the illness.

The

pilot project was launched earlier this year in South Yorkshire and

Bristol and the scheme has now received private funding to continue

until 2010.

Mr Balls watched a presentation by Mr Sudbury's

father, , at Barnsley College, South Yorkshire, aimed at

encouraging 16 to 18-year-olds to sign up to become donors and to

volunteer to help educate their peers.

Speaking after the

presentation - the 101st of its kind since the project began - the

schools secretary said the Government would now look at a proposal to

roll out the scheme across the country. He described the results of the

programme so far as " outstanding " and said he hoped a national project

would be funded " in weeks " .

He said: " Sudbury was a

really, really brave young man who died last summer of leukaemia.

Before his death, I spoke to him and said we would do what he wanted to

get the message out there around the country that, by giving blood,

signing on the bone marrow register, you can save the lives of other

young people. "

Mr Balls continued: " We are going to make sure we take this thing that works, do

it across the country.

" It's

what wanted. Even in the days before he died, he was saying to

me, 'please make sure that out of my death comes something good, please

get this message out to young people'. We're going to make it happen. I

want to deliver for , deliver for all the young adults around the

country who need blood or bone marrow transplants. "

Sudbury

delivered the moving presentation to a group of students, which

included footage of his son speaking about his illness. , a

Huddersfield Daily Examiner reporter, became ill in November 2006 and

was subsequently diagnosed with two distinct types of leukaemia.

He

waged a high-profile campaign for better education about bone marrow

donation in schools and colleges, which led to him meeting the Prime

Minister in Downing Street and making regular appearances on TV and

radio.

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