RUNNING the Plymouth Half Marathon on June 3 will be a family affair for Tavistock's Peter Collar, his wife and his daughters.

Peter, 72, signed up first, along with his daughters, Louise Bolt, 39, and Kathryn Fletcher, 41 — then his wife Sandra joined in after deciding she did not want to be the one member of the family looking on.

Peter has run for fun all his life but he has never taken part in a half marathon before. Both daughters have run marathons before but Sandra is a novice: 'I have never run any distance before but I'm getting through it.'

Bruce Danbury from Buckland Monachorum will also be taking part in the event, ahead of volunteering at the Olympic Games.

Bruce will be a field of play manager at the hockey centre during the world's biggest sporting tournament with responsibilities for the pitch, the stewards, managing spectators and other volunteers and getting athletes from the training pitch to the centre.

He will also have the same role for the wheelchair rugby at the Paralympics.

A member of Plympton Grammar School Old Boys' Hockey Club Bruce will be running the Plymouth Half Marathon for the British Heart Foundation.

Also running is Times reporter Sam Hughes in her first ever half marathon.