Captain Tom, 99, raises millions with walk in his UK garden

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The war veteran has raised 6.4 million pounds for Britain's national health service to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. FMTNews FMTLifestyle

The war veteran has set himself the target of walking the 25 metres around his garden 100 times before his 100th birthday later this month.

The story has lifted the hearts of a nation stuck in lockdown for the last month and weary of the relentless wave of grim news. So far, more than 12,000 people with Covid-19 have died in British hospitals, the fifth-highest total globally. “It was literally just something we were doing in the garden to keep him walking on his recovery from his hip operation,” Ingram told Reuters of how it started.

 

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