Runners mark Rotary success (From This Is Lancashire)

Runners mark Rotary success

8:00am Saturday 20th March 2010 in

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VOLUNTEERS working to fight the polio disease have celebrated 25 years with a relay marathon in Ramsbottom.

The event started at the urn, in Market Place, where walkers and runners joined Rotary clubs of Ramsbottom and Prestwich and Whitefield for a 27-mile circular route.

Each person covered one mile through Radcliffe, Walshaw, Hawkshaw and Holcombe, carrying an Olympic-style torch.

Eric Walmsley, from Ramsbottom Rotary Club, said: “The torch is to signify the hope given to millions of people who, without the initiative of Rotary International, would have been crippled with polio.”