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We turned red for Zac too - here's why

The whole of Shropshire was turning red today for brave Broseley four-year-old Zac Oliver - and we showed our support as well.

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It's 'Wear Red for Zac' day

For most of the day we changed our website's colour scheme from blue to red - all in support of Zac.

The youngster, who has an extremely rare form of childhood leukaemia, called Near Haploid, needs to travel to Philadelphia in the U.S. for specialist CAR-T therapy currently unavailable on the NHS.

Left; how we usually look. Right; how we look today.

His family are trying to raise the £500,000 needed for the treatment, and so far the response has been fantastic.

Schools, businesses and shops were wearing red today, and sharing pictures with the #wearredforzac hashtag.

And everybody involved is asked to donate at least £1 towards the total.

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