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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman from Monmouth will run the London Marathon for the third consecutive year to raise money for The Soldiers' Charity.<\/p>\n
Emma King – who clocks up 25 miles a week in training – is completing the task in honour of her friend Rifleman Jamie Gunn, who died in combat three years ago, the South Wales Argus reports.<\/p>\n
She is hoping to collect some £3,000 by doing the race as she seeks an overall total of £10,000 for the charity, which was set up 66 years ago.<\/p>\n
Her employer's Barclays have so far matched 40 per cent of what she has managed to raise.<\/p>\n
Ms King stated she felt compelled to do something because "what happened was so sad and I just wanted to give something back".<\/p>\n
She is not the only person to be spurred into fundraising after Rifleman Gunn's death, as another friend Christian Williams ran 21 races in 2009-10, with each one representing a year in his life.<\/p>\n
Posted by Trevor Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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