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Bringing Aycliffe Business Park Together | 13 SCH Site Services managing director Gary Finley (left) with charity fundraiser Mark Solan at the ROF 59 activity centre in Newton Aycliffe. Steel firm gets behind cancer charity crusader Local businesses are rallying behind an independent charity which is helping families in their fight against cancer. Newton Aycliffe firm SCH Site Services is the latest company to support the Solan Connor Fawcett Family Cancer Trust, set up by charity crusader Mark Solan. Mark raised £22,000 for Cancer Research UK from a charity boxing match last July after losing family and friends to the disease, and was later nominated for a Pride of Britain Award, narrowly missing out in the regional finals. The 42-year-old has since raised another £20,000 and is already helping families from Newton Aycliffe, Spennymoor and other parts of the region who are dealing with cancer. Now Mark – who lost his mother, Kay, and grandmother, Edith, to cancer – wants businesses and individual