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I am living the dream......

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Originally published: 27.02.2007

A mum has fulfilled her dream of helping women with cancer by launching her estate agency. Bernadette Murphy from Springburn is donating 10% of her profits to Cancer Research.

The 45 year old told how she had been inspired by a dream that she was on television telling GMTV's Lorraine Kelly about the thousands of pounds she'd raised for cancer charities.

She was so disappointed to wake up and find it was not real that she decided to make it happen.

She said: "I'm on a mission now. My gran Jane died of cancer and both my sister and I have had breast cancer scares. The wait to find out your fate is just awful, although we were lucky, there were so many women sitting in the waiting room and having to deal with the news alone."

Bernadette, who now lives in Cleland in Lanarkshire with her husbankd Michael, and kids Lucy, 14 and Michael, 17, was also diagnosed wih skin cancer on her face. It had been overlooked three times by her GP until doctors at Nuffield Hospital in Glasgow spotted it.

"I was the sunbed queen," she said, "But now I have to be careful in the sun. You can always spot my kids on the beach - they are plastered in factor 50."

Last week she launched Bernadette Murphy Estates, after being a top agent with REMAX.

News of her work travelled so fast that Scotland boss Alex McLeish turned up to support her.

She said: "I couldn't believe he'd taken the time to come along. I hope it will encourage people to get involved."

Bernadette has set up a website justthinkpink.com and set her sights on raising £100,000.

"I'm so passionate that sometimes when I visit customers I talk about it so much I forget I'm an estate agent," she laughs.