AROUND ten per cent of a town’s population will wear bras as they walk around a Derbyshire beauty spot to raise money for breast
cancer awareness. The event at Carsington Water is the brainchild of Ashbourne teaching assistants Claire Brennan and Josie Winbow. They were inspired to organise the walk by their friend, Sue Marsh, who has been treated successfully for the disease after being diagnosed in December 2007. Claire and Josie have completed the London Moonwalk, in which thousands walk the capital in bras, three times and Sue had planned to take part in it at the end of her treatment. But Claire and Josie decided to organise their own event in Derbyshire in honour of Sue, who teaches at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School. So far 730 men, women and children have signed up for the event. Josie, of Woodland’s Brow, a teaching assistant at Hill Top Infant School, said she was amazed by the event’s popularity.
She said: “We expected around 100 or so people but the fact have 730 is beyond our wildest dreams.