Crusade to fight a killer hits the road

Angela Armitage with the car stickers she and friend Carole Aitken have funded in memory of their husbands Eric and Geoff

A WIDOW’S crusade to help defeat the killer disease that robbed her of her husband has got her campaign well and truly on the road.

Angela Armitage and friend Carole Aitken, from Sheffield - who also lost her husband Geoff to terminal condition multiple system atrophy - have funded stickers to get MSA awareness wheels in motion.

Before Eric (61), from Chadderton, finally succumbed to the devastating neurological condition in March last year he and his family vowed to bring about greater awareness of the little known disease.

Carole and Geoff came up with using car stickers to spread the MSA word.

A limited number of stickers — dedicated to Eric’s and Geoff’s memory and featuring the trust’s helpline number — are available from Angela. The pair are hoping a donor will agree to fund several thousand more.

There are around 10 people with MSA in Oldham and 59 in Greater Manchester.

To get a car sticker write to Angela at 58 North Dene Park, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 9JN, and she will post one.