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Alice Maddocks, 8, from Hanging Heaton, West Yorkshire who suffers from aplastic anaemia, enjoys the beach on holiday in Hornsea, East Yorkshire. The Prime Minister Tony Blair promised to raise the number of bone marrow donors by an extra 40,000 a year. * ... after Alice's mother Carole, 34, was invited to Downing Street after challenging him on TV to help her desperately ill daughter. Alice, who has already had 25 blood transfusions could suffer organ failure or brain damage unless a 100 percent match is found. 27/05/2004: Scientists have been scouring Britain's beaches, armed with buckets and spades, to dig up information on how to make the best sandcastles, it was revealed Thursday May 27, 2004. The beach boffins built up a special formula known to them as OW=0.125 x s, or to everyone else as one part water for eight parts of sand. (Photo by John Giles - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)