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A spinal cord injury charity is teaming up with the producers of a hit US TV show to raise funds for research.

SCI Research Advancement is raffling tickets for chance to visit the set of The Office, the US version of the series made famous in the UK by Ricky Gervais.

Tickets cost $1 (63p) and entrants can buy as many as they like, with the package prize valued at over $4,000 (£2,521).

The trip includes two nights in a hotel and return airfares, though anyone in the UK would have to find their own way to the US.

All the proceeds will go to the cure paralysis project sponsored by SCI Research Advancement.

The charity was founded in 1997 by Will Ambler, who was paralysed in a motorcycle accident in 1992.

Among its supporters is the actor Marcus York, who stars in The Office, as well eminent professors from Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco.

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