Coast to coast - by bike.

A TEAM of cyclists from Coventry and Warwickshire will today embark on a gruelling 300-mile challenge to raise money for Baby Lifeline.

Mike Morris, John Mather John Mather can refer to

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John Mather, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 1723-28.

In fiction:

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, Mick Clarke and Glenn Noon, who is the maintenance manager of the Holiday Inn Coventry which is supporting the group, are part of a team of six taking part in the Coast to Coast Whitehaven to Newcastle-on-Tyne cycle trail.

Once the trail is completed, they will turn round and cycle back.

The team, which aims to raise more than pounds 1,000 for the mother and baby charity, will set off today in Whitehaven.

Their route runs through the northern Lake District before climbing into the hill country of the North Pennines The North Pennines is the northernmost part of the so-called 'backbone of England', the range of hills which runs through the centre of the northern half of England, from north to south. . It finishes in Tynemouth, near Newcastle.

The cyclists' challenge will finish at Langwathby in Cumbria on May 10.

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TEAM TARGET... Clive Skelhon of Baby Lifeline (right) and Holiday Inn general manager Mark O'Connor (second on left), with cyclists (from left) John Mather, Mike Morris and Glenn Noon. Picture: Mark Radford Mark Jeffrey Radford (born July 5, 1959) is an American former National Basketball Association player who played from 1981–1983. He played in college for Oregon State University, and was drafted in the third round (53rd overall) of the 1981 NBA Draft by the Seattle MR230408BIKE2

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Publication:	Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Date:	May 2, 2008
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