SCORES of people from across Hampshire will tomorrow stand together on the start line ahead of the London Marathon.

They will be hoping to complete the 26-mile slog in their bid to raise money for charity.

One Southampton man is preparing to tackle the gruelling course with a broken arm.

Ricky Thorne, 24, is determined to take part in honour of his aunt, Vicky Thornhill, inset, who has been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer.

Postal worker Ricky, from Millbrook, said: “After I ran the marathon last year I said I would never do it again, but once I heard about my aunt, I knew I had to do it again for her.

“The doctors said that I wouldn’t be able to run it, but I have put too much training into this, I cannot give up now.”

Ricky will wear a bright pink cast throughout the race, the colour of his chosen charity, the Breast Cancer Campaign.

Southampton teacher Harriet Jenkins has shed more than half her body weight in three years.

Harriet dropped from 26st to about 12st, picking up a national Slimming World title in the process, and tomorrow she faces an even bigger challenge, in her bid to raise money for the NSPCC.

She said: “I believe nothing’s impossible now and I can’t wait to cross the finish line and achieve another of my goals.”

Mother and daughter Sue and Kirstie Nash will be buzzing at the race.

Kirstie, 17, and Sue, 40, a nursery nurse, both of Fleming Place, Colden Common, will be running in bumblebee outfits and hope to raise £5,000 for Honeypots, the young carers’ charity.

Kirstie, a student at Peter Symonds College in Winchester, is a carer for her older sister Sophie, 21, who has cerebral palsy and autism.

Hampshire couple Dan and Mel Harvey will be running in aid of the Meningitis Trust.

Dan’s sister Lucy fell into a coma for two days after contracting bacterial meningitis in 1998.

The 36-year-old said: “The M e n i n g i t i s Trust gave our family a h u g e amount of support when Lucy was ill.”

They will be joined on the run by Winchester city councillor Kim Gottlieb, who is running his fifth marathon, to raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

Fordingbridge couple Lisa Delany, 45, and Chris Sprague, 55, are running for Starlight Children’s Foundation, a national charity that grants the once-in-alifetime wishes of seriously and terminally ill children.

Marathon veteran David Howells, 60, from Winchester is running the London Marathon for the 17th time, having taken part in about 40 in total.

It will be the eighth time he has run for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. His 34-year-old daughter suffers with the condition.