A Tauranga bus driver with terminal cancer is hoping another punter will snatch up his tickets to the Melbourne Cup, as his illness has stopped him crossing the ditch. Doctors have told Richard Hawthorne, 67, his cancer is terminal and he is too ill to travel to Melbourne next week on a dream trip his Go Bus workmates surprised him with.
Richard Hawthorne
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