MY granddaughter, Amy Snelling, 24, ran in the Brighton Marathon on Sunday for her mum who has MS (multiple sclerosis) and is in her fourth year coping with the crippling disease for which there is no known cure. Amy feels not enough is being done about this disease, and more research is required.

Hence her determination to do something to publicise it. Her mother might benefit from more research with more money available. She trained for nearly a year. It was not easy. She was working full-time as a primary teacher, but determined to get fit and keep a strict regime of training and diet. It meant no alcohol, no fatty foods, lots of carbohydrate and training, training, training! She made sure she was fit for the run and had a proper medical check, including her heart. How many times we read someone finished the race but dropped dead at the end!

Amy managed to raise over £700 from schoolmates, friends, relatives and many churchgoers from Our Lady of Lourdes of Rottingdean – all for a good cause, and most worthy for her mum! We are all so very proud of her. What a fine example to the credit of our young ones today.

Her parents and younger siblings came down all the way from Coleorton, near Ashby de la Zouch in the Midlands, 197 miles away, just to see her run and to cheer and support her!

It took Amy five hours, 22 minutes to cover the 26-mile route.

Delysia Balhatchet, Wivelsfield Road, Saltdean