East Anglian Daily Times editor Terry Hunt and news editor Brad Jones are to run this year’s London Marathon.

They are putting their best feet forward in support of the paper’s St Elizabeth Hospice campaign, and will be hoping to beat the clock rather than a looming deadline for the event on April 22.

With six weeks to go their training schedules are gathering pace and both men are looking forward to the challenge of stepping out of the newsroom and onto the streets of the capital.

Terry said: “I did the London Marathon in 2005, for what I said would be the first and only time. But two things changed my mind.