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JAMES CAMERON

HAVING BEEN IN the Services for 17 years, I am pretty good at routine and, recently, I have been getting up at 6.30am and going for a run with my 13-year-old, Tom. I am not a great one for breakfast, so after that I head straight to the Mission Motorsport workshop for 9am.

The charity’s Wantage HQ is about 20 miles from my home near Newbury and it is a glorious drive along the B4494 whatever you are in. Today that was a Seat Ibiza with 160,000 miles on the clock and three cylinders,

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