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  • A Scottish filmmaker has raised more than 200,000 euros for Britain's frontline healthcare staff through a running campaign inspired by strict coronavirus lockdown rules. What started as a local initiative to raise funds for the state-run National Health Service (NHS) quickly ballooned to include runners around the world -- and huge sums of money. "It started as family and friends participating but that snowballed into thousands of runners worldwide participating," said Olivia Strong, 27, a documentary producer in Edinburgh. Strong was sparked into action while on her regular jog near her home and noticing how many others were also out exercising. An hour's exercise is one of only four permissible reasons to leave home under British lockdown rules, and Strong saw it as an opportunity to help the country's stretched doctors and nurses battling the coronavirus outbreak. She asked participants to run five kilometres, raise £5 and nominate five others to do the same for her "Run for Heroes" campaign. Never in her "wildest dreams" did she imagine the level it would reach. In just a few days, the campaign has raised more than £180,000 ($225,000, 205,000 euros) -- and running. Despite being just a little more than a week old, around 30,000 participants from as far afield as Sydney, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and Toronto have already contributed. "We don't know what is going to happen about the future of going outside and being able to go on these runs," Strong added. "But while the NHS say that it is still a good thing to do for mental health and for our immune system, I think that we should really make full use of our one form of exercise a day." The money raised will be given to NHS Charities Together -- a national appeal to protect the welfare of staff by providing food packages, accommodation, transport and protective equipment. srg/jj/jv
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  • Run for your money: Scottish jogger raises thousands for health workers
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