A BUSINESSWOMAN from the North-East is training for her 17th Great North Run to raise awareness of a charity in her father’s memory.

Antoinette Oglethorpe will run the world famous half marathon on Tyneside on September 11 to raise awareness for the PSP Association (PSPA).

PSPA is the only charity in the UK supporting people living with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), their families and carers.

PSP can rob people of the ability to walk, talk, see and swallow and there is no treatment or cure.

Ms Oglethorpe lost her father, Sean Fahey, a former GP, to the rare brain disease in 2010 and now volunteers as a trustee for the charity.

The 49-year-old from Woolsington, near Newcastle, said: “The Great North Run is a people event much more than a sporting event, full of stories of people remembering loved ones and supporting friends and family.

“Every year they play Abide with Me while we’re waiting for the start in tribute to all of those who people are running for.

“I will be thinking of my dad with tears in my eyes as I listen to that. “