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Linwood librarian who beat cancer becomes world's first to complete epic windfarm challenge

Michele Lennox finally believed she wasn’t going to die of cancer the moment she completed an amazing challenge to become the first in the world to visit every single turbine on the country’s biggest onshore windfarm.

A year after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer and having to undergo surgery, the 55-year-old library assistant at OneRen’s Linwood Library set herself the extraordinary goal of bagging all 215 turbines on the Whitelee Windfarm, on Eaglesham Moor.

Over the next twelve months, Michele and her friends braved all weathers – sun, snow, wind, rain and sometimes all four on the same day – to complete the 360-mile challenge.

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