Cyclists braved a wet and windy and grey day to ride 60 miles down the Northumberland Coast to raise cash to fight cancer.

The Great North Bike Ride is raced in the memory of Chris Lucas, a teenager from Wallsend who died after contracting a rare form of cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma, which he bravely fought for three years.

The Chris Lucas Trust was set up in his name, to raise money which funds research into rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer which grows in muscles.

It was a drizzly morning in Northumberland, but it did little to deter the cyclists as they made their way south to Tynemouth , having set off from a Seahouses car park shortly before 9am.

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