For the hundreds who race in memory of loved ones, completing the Great North Run can be a deeply emotional experience.
But for Hannah Gibbs, crossing the famous starting line will be even more poignant, as she'll do it exactly one year to the day since she lost her beloved mum.
Rebecca Gorton, 49, from Cramlington, had endured a "long and hard battle" with skin cancer when, in August 2021, she went into hospital for a planned blood transfusion. But medics unexpectedly discovered her condition had deteriorated - with her illness so bad that she never managed to come home.
