Rally champion Burns suffers brain tumour

Britain's Richard Burns has been ruled out of next year's World Rally Championship because of a brain tumour.

Britain's Richard Burns has been ruled out of next year's World Rally Championship because of a brain tumour.

The tumour - known as an Astrocytoma - was discovered when Burns underwent scans after collapsing at the wheel of his Porsche earlier this month.

The 2001 world champion will undergo a course of radiotherapy with doctors confident he will make a full recovery.

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