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Rugby legend Sir Kevin Sinfield joined in with a community to raise money for motor neurone disease treatment.

Community Reporter Henry Luck has more.

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00:02and there are residents of Cranbrook are running 7k with sporting legend Sir Kevin
00:11Sinfield to raise money for a special cause thousands of runners have taken
00:17off for this charity fun run to raise money for motor neuron disease research
00:23it's a huge thing and that's that's really where Kevin has been transformational in
00:28terms of his fundraising not only with a with the money raised to help try and
00:33find this this cure for this awful disease but the awareness and I think
00:38to Kevin and other high-profile individuals that have that have done so
00:43much for the charity it's a huge thing a former president my minutes actually
00:47died of MND and having that plaque was laid yesterday by his family to
00:54commemorate that he's a founder member of our club and so for Cranbrook it really
00:58highlights the importance of what we're doing as a club to raise money for the
01:03awareness of MND the former professional rugby player turned coach set up the
01:09charity seven in seven in memory of a friend who died from motor neuron disease
01:15even other sporting businesses have joined the fun run to help Kevin's cause well
01:22obviously supporting the motor neuron disease is you know a key priority for
01:28us to come along and support all the work that Kevin Sinfield and his team are doing
01:32Kevin Sinfield I'm a great rugby supporter and I was you know Kevin is a coach with the
01:39England rugby team and what he's done is actually amazing over the years and it just
01:45so nice to give something back to open your own disease and support Kevin in his
01:50fundraising over the last few years around two hundred and twenty thousand
01:56pounds was raised from this event making one giant step towards changing so many
02:03lives Henry Luck for Kane TV in Cranbrook
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