A ROOKIE runner tackled a 13-mile run in memory of her godson's brave fight with cancer.

Durham City Council worker Tanya Baillie ran the Cardiff half-marathon to raise money for the CLIC Sargent team who helped care for Tim Jones at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Hospital.

Tim, who was 20 and lived in Bishop Auckland, died in April 2004, after a year of intensive treatment for a cancerous tumour on his right thigh bone.

He went through a number of operations at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, and had chemotherapy treatment in the teenage cancer unit at the Royal Victoria, where he was under the care of paediatric oncology consultant Juliet Hale and a dedicated nursing team.

Ann Wilson led a CLIC Sergeant team who supported both Tim and his family, including his parents, Ray and Margaret, and his girlfriend, Michelle Cooper.

Mrs Baillie, who is married to Michael and has daughters Natasha, nine, and Helena, eight, raised £821 by running the half-marathon in two hours 16 minutes and presented it to Ms Wilson at the hospital.

Ray Jones said: "We are all proud of what she has done, and pleased that she thought of Tim."

Soon after Tim died, his former colleagues at Bishop Auckland's Morrisons store fulfilled his last wish by raising £3,550 for the cancer unit.