Holly will run 26 miles for charity to celebrate her 21st birthday on Christmas day
AN intrepid university student from Hagley is running a marathon for her 21st birthday - which happens to fall on Christmas day - to raise money for the Parkinsons charity which helps her grandfather.
Holly Needham will run her first ever marathon from Malvern to her dad Philip's farm shop, Hodgehill Nursery in Kidderminster, on Sunday, December 21 to mark the upcoming milestone birthday, after the celebrations she had planned had to be cancelled due to Covid.
Holly training for her first ever marathon
A sports coaching student at Loughborough University, Holly has been training for the event in between essays.