Monday 30 November 2009

Ryan to ask for a meeting with Prime Minister


Ryan Mclaughlin of the Shine on Scotland campaign for vitamin D as a preventitive measure against MS will step up his campaigning this week for a meeting with the UK Prime Minister Mr Gordon Brown.
The bravehearted 14 year old tried to get sneaky meeting with him a few weeks back when he visited North Glasgow College to support Willie Bain but unfortunately there just wasn’t enough time but he was promised a meeting at a later date, although a little disappointed he knew that Mr Brown was a very busy man and was happy to get a promise of a meet at a later date.
Mrs Sarah Brown is a great supporter of MS and he hopes that Mr Brown will support him.
Ryan says ” this is so important to my cause if we can get the UK government support we may be able to move forward in the prevention of  MS through vitamin D supplementation,  there are loads of people from all over the UK wanting this now – I get emails almost every day from Mum’s wanting to protect their kids , it is so cheap to supply it so why delay it’s introduction – a clinical study would cost a 100 times more than just doing it now and would take years to show results  and we must protect kids from MS now.
He say’s the  Scottish Government have been amazing and so supportive and he hopes to open the eyes of the UK  Government in a similar fashion to the Scottish Government but said he has no plans to dress as William Wallace again on any visit and it will be kept very low key.

Sunday 29 November 2009



Ryan McLaughlin with Miss Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon and sponsor Mark Currie from Fraser Suites

After his mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis Ryan formed the Shine on Scotland campaign.  Working with scientists to develop Vitamin D as a preventative measure against MS, cancer and other serious conditions, Ryan continues campaigning to bring this to the attention of Scottish Government.