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Mum with incurable cancer will open Leicester's 'Race for Life'

If you're going to be pulling on your running shoes this weekend and taking on the 'Race for Life' in Leicester keep an eye out for a very special race opener.

Sophie Williams from Market Harborough is living with incurable cancer and has just finished a last hope round of chemo.

The former dance school owner will be joined on stage on Sunday with some little angel peg dolls that her Mum Jan makes.

These dolls, or Soph's angels as they're called, have become a internet hit being pictured in all the places Sophie's too poorly to visit herself.

Jo Bostock has been to visit Sophie and Jan to have a look at these angels and find out more about their story.

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