Hundreds Cheer On Intrepid Gran Rosie After She Completes World Marathon ; She Ends Gruelling Five-Year Global Trek Limping On Crutches
Western Mail › August 26, 2008
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WHEN she was last in her hometown of Tenby, Saddam Hussein was still a free man, few people outside the US had heard of Barack Obama, house prices were soaring and Wales was yet to win one Six Nations Grand Slam, yet alone two.
Yesterday, a day before Wales' returning Olympic heroes are feted in Cardiff, there was an equally buoyant homecoming for the grandmother, who has completed an arguably even greater physical feat.See the full content of this document
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Hundreds Cheer On Intrepid Gran Rosie After She Completes World Marathon ; She Ends Gruelling Five-Year Global Trek Limping On Crutches
After walking more than 20,000 miles around the world over the past five years, Rosie Swale Pope returned home to a welcome from more than 1,000 people who lined the streets and applauded her route home from two miles outside the town.
On what she came to describe as her "world voyage on two feet", she was confronted by an axeman in the forests of Siberia, run over by a bus in Russia, cam...See the full content of this document
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