Leah Muir will have more than 40cm of her cut to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter We have more newsletters Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter We have more newsletters Lockerbie teenager Leah Muir will fulfil a promise to her dying nana when she gets all of her lengthy locks shaved off tomorrow. The 16-year old set out to sacrifice all of her more than 40cm of lovely long hair to raise £200 for Macmillan Cancer Support. The gesture was made as a thank you to the specialist nurses who helped care for her beloved nana, Caroline Muir, who died a year ago after losing her battle to the disease.
However, thanks to online donations and collection tubs dotted around the town’s businesses Leah has already raised £420. And that’s before she even sits down at 11am tomorrow to go under the clippers at the Who’s Next Barber Shop. She said: “I’m doing this fundraiser to help people with cancer who might not have a chance to get their hair back.
” And the brave young woman, who has a passion for photography, will no doubt be contemplating on the latest cancer scare to hit her close family. Her 39-year-old dad, Shaun Muir, had his own cancer battle nine years ago which needed an operation and chemotherapy. But the family has just learned there is a possibility it has returned.
Shaun will attend Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary to d.