Two-year-old Hope Fletcher, who is waiting for a kidney transplant, proudly displays her father's Flora London Marathon medal.

Matt Fletcher, 31, head of PE at Helena Romanes School in Dunmow, raised £9,000 for the British Kidney Patients Association and the Kinder Appeal at Nottingham City Hospital where Hope was treated in the renal unit after her birth.

He finished the 26.2 mile course on Sunday in five hours 25 minutes.

Hope, who has been on the transplant waiting list since November, has only a five per cent kidney function and undergoes 13 hours of dialysis every day.

Published Thursday, April 17, 2003

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