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Beijing to Bedford fundraiser for multiple sclerosis charity
Our Friday Ramblings columnist PETER FROST tells us about a mum and daughter making a epic green rail journey for charity
Bedford and Northampton MS Therapy Centre

Regular readers of my Ramblings in Friday’s Morning Star will have already met my granddaughter Lizzie. She has penned a couple of Star articles herself and is a great source of ideas for environmental articles as well as sometimes being my sternest critic.

Lizzie (21), who I have always described as to the left of Rosa Luxemburg and Greener than David Attenborough, has already packed a lot of political and environmental campaigning into her life.

She won a UN essay competition visiting Auschwitz to become a Holocaust ambassador. She was elected to the RSPB’s Young Members’ Forum and in the 2016 general election she became the youngest ever paid employee of the Labour Party.

Ten years ago I wouldn’t have been able to even think about such a journey

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