Daily Mirror

I bought Jag E-Type.. and beat cancer

- BY MARTIN SHAW

A MAN beat prostate cancer after buying himself a Jaguar E-Type for motivation during treatment.

Alistair Armitage, 73, bought the red motor after being diagnosed in 2016.

Now he is set to complete a stage of the Jaguar E-Type Club’s Round Britain Coastal Drive 2018 in support of Prostate Cancer UK.

Alistair, from Shelley, West Yorkshire, said: “The news about my prostate cancer diagnosis came as quite a shock to me.

“I always wanted to buy an E-Type Jaguar and needed something to lift my spirits, so I thought, ‘why not buy one now?’

“Fortunatel­y my cancer was caught early – the treatment was successful.”

Up to 12,000 UK men die each year from the cancer.

 ??  ?? FIGHTER Alistair in motor
FIGHTER Alistair in motor

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