Fresh from running a personal best at the London Marathon, Old Monmothian and Usk Town Councillor Tony Kear joined 32 other runners in completing the D-Day 44-mile ultra marathon in Normandy in aid of BLESMA, the British Limbless Ex-Service Mens Association.

The course, run on 6th June, 67 years after the D-Day landings, started from Point Du Hoc and then followed east across the cliff tops and beaches code named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword and ended at the Cafe Gondree next to Pegasus Bridge – the first place to be liberated by the Allies in 1944.

For full story see Beacon 15/06/11.