The local Cancer Research UK Thornbury fundraising committee has raised an amazing 1 million pounds for cancer research since their inception in 1977. Colin Campbell (Intelligent Systems Laboratory) attended their celebratory afternoon tea on Monday 13th June at the Ship Inn in Thornbury. After thanking them for all their efforts, he gave a short talk on using bioinformatics to predict single nucleotide variants driving unregulated cell proliferation (the FATHMM-MKL method used at the COSMIC cancer database in Cambridge) and bioinformatics insights in prostate cancer research. The participants enjoyed the event and everyone enjoyed the celebratory cake!