A LEADING charity has thanked its many supporters who completed Sunday’s Great North Run.

More than 150 men and women ran the Tyneside half-marathon in aid of the humanitarian charity, the Red Cross, including 40 from the North-East.

They included husband and wife David and Michelle Musgrave.

Mrs Musgrave said: “I was really struggling but with the support of David and the crowds along the roadside I was determined to keep going and really glad that I did.”

Margaret Musgrave, senior community fundraiser for the Red Cross in the North-East, said: “We’re so grateful for all our runners who entered the race.

“We’re grateful for all those miles run in training, all those soakings in the rain, all those evenings out missed, or spent sober, and for all the hard running on the day.

“We’re so grateful for all the sponsorship raised. People’s lives are transformed by the work of the Red Cross both overseas in massive disasters and right here in the UK by perhaps less big and newsworthy but equally as life-changing and worrying disasters and crises.”

Registration for a Red Cross place in next year’s Great North Run, which costs £49 with a £300 sponsorship target, is open now at redcross.org.uk/GNR