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TV racing pundit Clare Balding is among the celebrities set to lend their support to a spinal injury sufferer.

Paul Stewart is paralysed from the waist down after an accident in the Swiss Alps last year which saw him tumble 227-feet during an avalanche, the Daily Mail relayed.

A charity meal is set to take place in April, with the likes of Lester Piggott and Willie Carson slated to be in attendance alongside the former snowboarding instructor.

The bash will raise cash for research into treatment spinal injuries, something Mr Stewart has been receiving at hospitals on both sides of the Atlantic, including Buckinghamshire's Stoke Mandeville (SM), Brucker Clinic and Mount Sinai.

The latter two are able to give the 28-year-old therapies which are not available in the UK, according to his father Andy.

"He still can't stand on his own two feet and he remains incontinent. The treatment includes the use of a special electrical impulse machine not available in Britain," the "anguished" dad told the news provider.

In related news, SM recently became the first centre in the UK to be given the highest level of Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.

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