Ambulance technician who works in Fife doing run to raise money to support fight against motor neurone disease

An ambulance technician who works in Fife is taking part in a run this May to raise cash to support the fight against motor neurone disease (MND).

Gregor Miller, who works for the Scottish Ambulance Service in Glenrothes, will do his Castle Crusade run, with safety precautions in place.

He will be running from Stirling Castle to Edinburgh Castle and aims to raise awareness of the condition after his Dad, a former police officer, died from MND in 2019.

MND is a progressive degenerative disease of the motor neurones in the brain and wasting of the muscles that affects people of all ages.

Gregor is raising funds for My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, MND Scotland and the Euan Macdonald Centre.

More than £5,000 has been raised so far through an online fundraiser, but Gregor's aspiration is to raise as much as £50,000 to allow for investment in technology to help with research.

Former Raith Rovers and Hearts player Ryan Stevenson will run the whole 40 miles with him.

Other figures from the world of football, Colin Cameron, Simon Ramsden, Tam McManus and Willie Conquer, and Scott Hastings, a former Scotland rugby international, will take part in the crusade, but they will only complete one four mile leg.

Only four people can run at any one time for this challenge (Gregor and Ryan doing the whole route with the other two slots being filled by the others dipping in and out every four miles) and the public will not be allowed to get involved due to coronavirus rules.

The participants will complete a lateral flow test before running and temperatures will be checked to make sure there are no signs of Covid-19.

Gregor told Kingdom FM Ryan played alongside former Hearts captain Marius Žaliūkas, who died last October at the age of 36 after battling MND: