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Baby daughter's memory inspired 'my ultimate test'
Ian Luker ran 212 miles in a tunnel to raise money for maternity bereavement services.
Ian Luker from Teesside took on a 200-mile ultra marathon, The Tunnel 2026, running 212 miles in a dark tunnel. He did it in support of the Maternity Bereavement Charity and James Cook University Hospital after losing his baby daughter, Ani Rose in 2010.
Ian joined Amy Oakden in the studio.
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