A MUM and her children are in training for the run of their lives.

Judy Grant, 43, is to run the BUPA Great North Run at the weekend, and Matthew, 11, and Charlotte, ten, will be competing too.

The family members, from Buxton Old Road, Macclesfield, are being sponsored to raise money for the Breast Cancer Campaign.

Judy, a PE teacher at the David Lewis School for children with epilepsy in Great Warford, has run the half marathon before, raising money for her school.

She said: "I carried on training after the Wilmslow half marathon back in March, and I decided to do the Great North Run again this year.

"But this time me and the children are raising money for the Breast Cancer Campaign.

"Several of my friends have suffered from this illness and one of my friends has had a mastectomy.

"Now I feel anything we can do to raise awareness is worth it, and I enjoy running anyway."

So Judy will compete the famous half marathon in Newcastle upon Tyne on Sunday. Young Matthew and Charlotte (pupils at Tytherington High School and Puss Bank School, respectively) will compete in the Junior Great North Run on Saturday.

The Breast Cancer Campaign funds research aimed at finding a cure. It also publishes health advice.

Each year 39,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed. It is mainly women who are affected (12,800 die from it each year). Smaller numbers of men also suffer. There are almost 100 male breast cancer deaths per year in the UK.