AN inspirational pensioner has spoken of the fantastic experience of carrying the Olympic Torch when it returned to Worcestershire.
Moira Starkey, aged 85, of Storridge, near Malvern, completed her leg of the nationwide relay in Wickhamford, near Evesham, on Sunday.
She was supported by friends and neighbours after being chosen as a torchbearer for fund-raising work in aid of breast cancer charity the Haven.
She said: “It was fantastic. I have never seen so many people and they were all waving and cheering.
"I enjoyed every minute and I am very grateful to have been picked to do it.
"I can think of a few other people who well merited it who were not picked.”
She has raised more than £12,000 for the charity since 2004, when a close friend and neighbour was diagnosed with breast cancer and visited the charity’s centre in Hereford.
To boost her total, she has donated her torch and torchbearer uniform to the charity to be auctioned or raffled off.
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