Thursday, 16 Apr 2020 04:29 PM MYT
LONDON, April 16 ― Tom Moore, a 99-year-old British war veteran, completed 100 laps of his garden on Thursday, raising more than £12 million for the health service in an endeavour that has sown joy across the country amid the coronavirus gloom. Retired army captain Moore, who has used a rollator to move around since breaking his hip, set himself the target of walking the 25 metres around his garden 100 times before his 100th birthday on April 30.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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