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490:"Gordon Brown praises 'courageous' motor neurone disease campaigner"
660:"Gordon Aikman surpasses £500,000 mark in MND fundraising drive"
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216:. In 2017, he wrote a monthly column in the Scottish edition of
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Aikman was married to Joe Pike, a political journalist for
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Deaths from motor neuron disease in the United
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634:"NHS to fund specialist MND nurses"
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105:. Aikman successfully lobbied the
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259:Scottish Politician of the Year
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