Buxton runner who overcame cancer to face ultimate sporting challenge

Fiona Heathcote was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006.

Published:15:55Friday 17 March 2017

Buxton cancer survivor Fiona Heathcote, 43, pictured here, is celebrating ten years cancer free this year by taking on one of the UK’s biggest sporting challenges and is calling on local runners to join her.

She will be putting her best foot forward in this year’s London Marathon and is raising funds to help Cancer Research UK beat cancer sooner.

Mother-of-one Fiona was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and underwent surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy followed by a further 12 months of Herceptin treatment.

As a way of regaining her fitness afterwards she decided to take up running, starting with a Race for Life 5k and then progressing to a 10kThe Game of Thrones series finale was a divisive one, that's for sure. While some viewers were happy with how everything drew to a close, others demanded more from the show, especially in the way of who perished in the final, decisive battle.

If you felt like there could have been a lot more death and destructive coming out of that clash, you're not alone. Director Miguel Sapochnik, who directed the Battle of Winterfell episode ("The Long Night"), wanted a lot more characters to die during the battle. In a recent podcast interview with IndieWire, he spilled the beans on how he would have preferred that things went.

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"I wanted to kill everyone,” said Sapochnik. "I wanted to kill Jorah in the horse charge at the beginning. I was up