Staff from Newmarket Leisure Centre (NLC) donned their walking shoes on Monday (22nd June) to join Richard Dunwoody on one leg of his mammoth Barclay Challenge to walk 1000 miles in 1000 hours.

Anglia Community Leisure is sponsoring the Challenge and launched a new Health Walks scheme at the Challenge celebrations on Sunday 12 July when Richard hopes to have achieved his target.

 Leisa Bright, Health Walk Coordinator, says: “We are mentally supporting Richard every step of the way, but on Monday we want to physically give our support and walk two miles with him – from the Bedford Lodge Hotel to the war memorial on Bury Road and back – to give him our encouragement at he enters the second half of his Challenge.”