{"id":29684,"date":"2023-03-07T15:16:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/07\/rob-burrow-receives-points-of-light-award-from-rishi-sunak\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:16:48","slug":"rob-burrow-receives-points-of-light-award-from-rishi-sunak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=29684","title":{"rendered":"Rob Burrow receives \u2018Points of Light\u2019 award from Rishi Sunak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Rob Burrow has received an award from Prime Minister Sunak for his campaigning on motor neurone disease (MND).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In a special ceremony at Downing Street, the former Leeds Rhinos star accepted the 2,000th \u2018Points of Light\u2019 award, which recognises outstanding individual volunteers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Burrow was diagnosed with MND in 2019 and has campaigned for three years for better research into the disease. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In 2022 the government pledged to fast-track \u00a350-million of funding into research for a cure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-64876195?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Rob Burrow has received an award from Prime Minister Sunak for his campaigning on motor neurone disease (MND). In a special ceremony at Downing Street, the former Leeds Rhinos &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}