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front page the following day – (in the days when we had a daily paper!) Marilyn and I looked at each other – Marilyn giving me the look, as she so often did – a look that said, ‘Front page? Oh, Glennis what have you got us into now?’
She then pushed me down into one of my armchairs and literally emptied the bag of hats over me and planted a blue floppy hat on my head, pinning in a little pink bow on that I had bought from a Cancer Research stall days before. Bernard clicked away and produced a photo
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that was to be used for years by the paper – the ‘Blue Hat Photo’. Next, a reporter phoned. Could I go over to the Breast Department at KGH for a photo with the breast care team and to be interviewed – within the hour? Like Marilyn, members of the breast team looked at me with the same quizzical eyes, but they were happy eyes for they knew we
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were wanting to raise a lot of money for them.
True to the paper’s words, we made the front page the following day
– the project had gone public – it was somewhat embarrassing and a little overwhelming but, it was the start of an amazing relationship and true friendship with all the photographers, reporters and the editors from the Evening Telegraph, their sister paper, the Chronicle & Echo, and what was the Herald & Post, the Citizen and Wellingborough News. The support given to Crazy Hats was, and remained utterly incredible, the daily Evening Telegraph now
changed to the weekly Northamptonshire News Shortly after hitting the headlines, the Editor of the Evening Telegraph at that time, David Penman, contacted me to ask if I could go to see him at the paper’s main office in Kettering. I was made to feel very welcome and following introductions and general
chit chat, David made quite a speech.
“Glennis, you’ve started something that is going to
make a huge difference to Breast Cancer Care in North- amptonshire. You’ve got people talking about cancer. I’ve had feedback from the feature, and I believe, at last, cancer is being talked about and we, the Evening Telegraph, make our pledge to support you.”
I asked him what he meant.
“I’m the Editor of a paper Glennis; people talk to me; I listen to what they say. People are talking about cancer, and we know this is just what is needed.
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