A Shropshire woman from Cockshutt is hoping to raise more than £3,000 for St John Ambulance, when she runs the 2015 Virgin Money London Marathon for the first aid charity later this year.
Sense, the national deafblind charity, is offering budding athletes from Shropshire the opportunity to take the challenge of a lifetime and run this year’s London Marathon.
A lifelong Shropshire Aston villa fan will finish running the length of eight marathons in eight days with a lap of the pitch at half time during his team’s next match against Hull City Football Club.
A team representing a Shrewsbury-based development charity will be on the starting line when Shropshire’s county town hosts its very first marathon and half marathon, this Summer.