20-03-2025
BBC Shropshire team takes red nose on Comic Relief hill tour
A team from BBC Radio Shropshire has begun a 12-hour challenge to reach the top of the county's three highest peaks, taking with them a huge Comic Relief red Adam Green, newsreader Carlie Swain and producers Tim Barnes and Michaela Wylde set off shortly after 06:00 GMT on aim to conquer Stiperstones, Brown Clee and Titterstone Clee by 18:00, to help support the charity the first peak in the early morning sun, Green said: "We've done it. That's the best view we'll see for a long time!"
After descending from the summit and loading the "nose", a 5ft (1.5m) red ball stuffed with soft filling, into a van, the team met a cheering crowd at Clee Hill Primary School where they completed a mile-long (1.6km) relay on the school pupils cheered "red nose, red nose" to greet the crew, headteacher Ceri Little said: "We have a running club at the school. Eight laps of the field is one mile so we're going to be following you round".
The challenge is the latest in a series undertaken by the presenter and his colleagues for the appeal in previous have previously taken various forms of red noses up the Wrekin and around it in rickshaws. Green has also faced 1,000 penalty kicks and undertaken 24 different sports in 24 hours.
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