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Former Telford woman's 92 league grounds visited in 92 hours

She's football mad and wanted to raise money for charity – so it was only natural that Rebecca White set herself a challenge of visiting all 92 league grounds.

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Not only that, but Rebecca set herself and her boyfriend just 92 hours to complete the task.

The couple travelled the length and breadth of the UK in a bid to raise money for Sue Ryder.

Rebecca was born and brought up in Telford but now lives in the south east and has adopted Reading as her favourite club.

She was hoping to raise 50p for every mile she covered – a total of £1,150.

A more recent stop at Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire

But she has already smashed her target, reaching £2,119.45 at the start of her challenge.

Becki lived in Ketley, Telford, for 12 years and attended Thomas Telford School before going to the University of Wolverhampton.

She now lives in West Sussex, where she works in security at Gatwick Airport.

She said: "It is really great. My company and my boyfiend's company are going to sponsor us too so we're going to raise well over £2,500.

"It is really overwhelming."

The pair started at 6pm on Tuesday from Brighton and Hove Albion, working their way through London and up the East Side of England, before crossing over between Newcastle and Carlisle to come back down the west side of the country.

They picked up Becki's father David in Manchester and he stayed with them until Birmingham, where her mum joined until the end. The trio stopped at Shrewsbury Town's Greenhous Meadow, Molineux and West Bromwich Albion's Hawthorns in the early hours of yesterday.

After screaming through the West Midlands, the pair headed through Berkshire and the Chilterns before crossing the border to Wales.

The final leg saw them cover the south west of England, before heading to Cardiff to watch them play Reading on Saturday. In total, the challenge covered just over 2,300 miles.

She said: "It's a really tough challenge, but I'm desperate to raise as much money as I can for Sue Ryder, specifically for the hospice in Nettlebed just outside Henley where my Granny Monica White spent the final couple of weeks of her life. The work they do providing round-the-clock care for end of life patients is faultless, and the nurses deserve all the praise they can get."

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