Policemen on run for charity

MORE than £5,000 has been raised for charity in memory of a policeman who died of a heart attack on holiday aged just 34.

Martin Barber, based at Bonnyrigg, died last year. His colleagues Donald Kettrick and Mark Rankin ran 100 miles from Wester Hailes to Glasgow and back. Mr Kettrick raised 2,400 for The Mark Wright Project and Mr Rankin 1,000 for Herdmanflat Hospital in Haddington.

A team of cyclists covered the same route, raising 2,000 for the British Heart Foundation.