Family to take on charity challenge with thousands of others in honour of father taken far too soon by cancer

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A family from Barrhead is taking on a charity trek in honour of their father who died of cancer.The MacGregor sisters will be pounding the pavements for the Beatson charity, which is an internationally renowned cancer centre and the busiest in the UK in terms of clinical activity and patient numbers as well as being the second largest cancer centre in the UK.Carly MacGregor Grant will be taking on the 10km trek through the West End of Glasgow on Sunday, August 28 alongside her husband 51-year old Iain Grant, Carly's sister Fiona Christie and her husband David Christie who are also from Barrhead, and Carly’s other sister Helen Connor who is from Crawford near Biggar in South Lanarkshire. Don't miss the latest headlines from around Renfrewshire.

Sign up to our newsletters here. Jim MacGregor died of cancer at just 57-years-old and Carly said: "Our dad died of cancer 32 years ago, and when we realised Off the Beatson Track was going to be on the eve of what would have been his 90th birthday this year, we thought it would be a fitting way to celebrate this special anniversary and raise some money for a great cause in his memory.“Our dad was a medical man, an educator, a researcher and an innovator.

He loved new technology and one of my strongest memories of him was his appearance on the TV program Tomorrow’s World back in the early 80s.“As well as the many amazing well-being services Beatson Cancer Charity provide to patients, they also fund specialist staff and support cutting-edge cancer research and education, which Dad