A sports commentator is to run and cycle from John O’Groats to Land’s End to commemorate the lives of four friends who all died within the last two years.
Olympic broadcaster and snooker announcer Rob Walker, 48, is set to travel over 1,000 miles in 19 days from June 5 to 23 in what he is calling The Absent Friends Tour to raise money for two charities – The Brain Tumour Charity and Jessie May Children’s Hospice at Home.
Mr Walker said he was inspired to take on the challenge through “tragic necessity” after his friends Robin Thomas, Martyn Settle, Stephen Isles, and George Hawkins – one of his son Arthur’s best friends – died in the last two years.
