Julie Howard, AM account director, has raised £2,000 for automotive charity BEN after completing the London Marathon.

Howard completed the marathon in 4:13:17.

Howard said: “I am so grateful for the support. The run was so rammed with people and so hot, it wasn’t an entirely pleasurable experience but I am so pleased to have completed my first marathon and raised money for such a good cause.”

Howard has been running for pleasure for eight years around her home in Ketton. Her longest before the marathon had been the Great Eastern Run in Peterborough in October, a half marathon.