Nostalgia: Striding to the rescue

THE Great Scottish Walk is returning to the Capital this June after an absence of six years.
By The Newsroom
Published 2nd May 2015, 12:57 BST
Some of the Round Table team at the rope as the Evening News Charity Walk gets under way at Meadowbank stadium in Edinburgh, September 1987Some of the Round Table team at the rope as the Evening News Charity Walk gets under way at Meadowbank stadium in Edinburgh, September 1987
Some of the Round Table team at the rope as the Evening News Charity Walk gets under way at Meadowbank stadium in Edinburgh, September 1987

The popular event was a fixture in Edinburgh for more than ten years, raising millions of pounds for charity.

Now the event is back with a brand new route, with walkers being given the chance to take part in either the 10k or 20k routes, which leave from Holyrood Park.

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Little ones can also get involved in the Great Scottish Toddle.

Grant Stott and brother John Leslie at the starting line with participantsGrant Stott and brother John Leslie at the starting line with participants
Grant Stott and brother John Leslie at the starting line with participants

The walk is backed by the Evening News, which has a long history of supporting charity walks in the Capital.

Actor Gerard Kelly fired the starting pistol which kicked off the Evening News charity walk at Meadowbank Stadium in October, 1992.

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