SCORES of walkers are preparing for Sunday’s six-mile circular Pub2Pub walk in aid of the Gail Simpson Memorial Fund for Pendleside Hospice.

While the walk is not necessarily a sponsor-led event each entrant will be asked to pay a £5 fee at the registration stations at the two pubs involved ¬– the Crooked Billet at Worsthorne and the Kettledrum Inn at Mereclough, Cliviger.

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The idea of the walk is that hikers can start at either pub and walk a three-mile country route to the second pub.

After a refreshment break walkers will then make the three-mile vice-versa journey to the pub where they started.

Registration will take place at both pubs between 11am and noon.

You can also sign up or receive sponsorship forms either by going online to www.pendleside.org.uk or call Pendleside Fundraising on 01282 44012.

On registration walkers will receive coloured maps of both routes and a detailed description with directional pictures of the walks. Christina Cope, of Pendleside Hospice, said: “Both sections of the walk cover some of our most beautiful countryside with some amazing views.

“The weather is looking very favourable so we hope as many people as possible turn out for the event.

“If people can’t do the walk they can make a donation on the remembrance page www.justgiving.com/gailsimpson/”

Gail’s husband Alan said: “Everything about the walk reminds me so much of Gail. The two pubs are the two we most frequented and most weeks we went walks around the Worsthorne, Hurstwood and Cliviger areas.

“I just hope that lots of people turn out so that we can make as much money for the hospice as possible.”

Gail was a Barclays bank clerk in Burnley and Blackburn for 35 years and later a civil servant at the Department of Work and Pensions at Simonstone.

She died last November aged 61 after a year-long battle with ovarian cancer.

Her family pledged to raise £10,000 during 2015 for the hospice.

Already the appeal stands at more than £35,000 and the revised target is £50,000.