MISS England LCpl Katrina Hodge (AGC) and football manager-turned-pundit Graham Taylor will take part in The Royal British Legion’s Pedal to Paris this month.
The duo will be among a field of 300 riders for the annual challenge, which is expected to raise £500,000 for the charity.
The ride starts on September 2 and donations can be made online at www.justgiving.com/missengland or www.justgiving.com/grahamtaylor

A DEDICATED team of endurance runners from 156 Transport Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps are travelling to Russia to compete in the Moscow Marathon of Peace.
The nine athletes are using the event to continue their fund-raising work for ABF The Soldiers’ Charity and the Everton Foundation, a sports initiative in Liverpool.
The group features Regular and Reserve soldiers who hope to raise £10,000 for each of the charities.
To support their marathon attempt on September 12 visit www.justgiving.com/156RunningMoscow

AN introductory course for novice ice hockey players is being held at the John Nike Leisure Centre in Bracknell later this month.
The two-day programme will teach soldiers the essentials of ice skating as well as puck control, positioning and game play.
The course costs £30 and will be held on September 16 and 17. The price includes free entry to a Bracknell Bees game, which will be followed by an after-match discussion with players and officials.
For more information contact WO2 Samuel on 94674 8871 or email 7-REME-132-HQ-SSM@mod.uk

SERVICE fishermen have taken to the riverbank to compete for glory in the 2010 Army Angling Federation inter-corps championships.
After a long day of competition at Portland Water, near Grantham, the REME were crowned champions, with the AGC second and RE third.
LCpl Gaz Evans (AGC) was the individual winner thanks to his impressive 79.27kg haul.

THE Army Football Association will be holding trials for its three representative teams ahead of the 2010/11 season.
Trials for the senior men’s squad will be held from September 27 to October 1 and interested players should contact Capt Ritchie Bell on 94777 5743.
The Under-23 side will be holding similar sessions on the same dates and further information is available from Maj Dave Manners on 94222 4048.
Potential players for the women’s team can contact Capt Steve Dridge on 94322 5737 for details on their trials, which will be held from September 20 to 24.

THE Army will have a strong showing in the Commonwealth Fencing Championships with four competitors travelling to Australia for the tournament later this month.
Capt Naomi Lee (REME) will represent Northern Ireland in the sabre while Capt Jenni Goodman (RADC) has been selected in the Welsh squad and will compete in the epee.
Capt Naveen Rahman (Int Corps) forms part of the Guernsey team and will test her skills in the foil. Col Niall Campbell (late RHF) completes the line-up. He will feature in the epee discipline for the England Veterans.
The competion starts in Melbourne on September 29.

FORMER England boss Brian Ashton was on hand to offer expert advice to the Army’s Rugby Union coaches at a two-day training course in Arborfield.
The sessions included tips on offensive and defensive play, scrummaging drills, an overview of analysis techniques and work on set pieces.

ARMY athletes have celebrated double success at the Inter-Services heptathlon and decathlon championships at RAF Cosford.
Sgt Lee Okoroafo (RLC) was in fine form in the ten-event challenge, finishing with 6,003 points to top the individual rankings.
With WO2 Steve Chappell (APTC), Pte Osman Muskwe (3 LSR) and Capt Tom Skinner (11 Sig Regt) claiming third, fourth and fifth places respectively, the Service squad finished with a combined total of 16,810 points.
The Royal Air Force, who only fielded three athletes in the decathlon competition, finished second with a score of 9,387.
In the heptathlon RAF star LCpl Laura McGawn continued her dominant form from the Inter-Services athletics championships to win the individual competition in style.
But the efforts of Pte Natalie Flaherty (RLC), LCpl Naomi Backhouse (21 Sig Regt) and Cpl Gabrielle Rogers (4 Med Regt) were enough to secure an Army win as the Reds amassed 8,752 points, with the RAF on 7,638.

A TEAM of Royal Engineers have set themselves a target of completing ten marathons in five days while carrying 39lb Bergens on their backs.
SSgt Jim Offord (39 Engr Regt) will lead the endurance athletes in the gruelling trek, which is being staged as part of the St Dunstan’s Forces Challenge.
“A march of this magnitude has not been attempted by the regiment before and I’ve picked a strong team with the determination to complete the challenge,” the NCO explained.
“We will cover a distance of 266 miles, which means we will complete a marathon every six hours, tabbing at a rate of four-and-a-half to five miles per hour, followed by six hours recovery.”
The team will start the route from the St Dunstan’s Centre in Sheffield on November 1 and will walk through Nottingham, Loughborough, Nuneaton, Daventry, Milton Keynes and Hemel Hempstead before heading to the charity’s headquarters in London.
They will then move on to Crawley ahead of the big finish in Ovingden, near Brighton.
Offord has set himself the challenge of completing a series of treadmill marathons as he trains for the main event.
On September 21 he will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest 100km on a treadmill carrying 40lbs and he has already raised £927 by completing a similar task in a time of 5hr 17min.
The team, armed with 40lb Bergens, will also climb the 560 steps of the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth on October 14.
To sponsor them visit www.justgiving.co.uk/10squaddies and for more information on the Forces Challenge log on to www.st-dunstans.org.uk

TWO former soldiers are planning a 50-mile run through the East Anglian countryside to help raise money for the Bryan Gunn Leukaemia Appeal.
Karl Smith and Carl Murdoch, who both served with 27 Transport Regiment in Aldershot, will start their route at Portman Road, home of Ipswich Town Football Club, before crossing the finish line at Norwich City’s Carrow Road stadium.
The challenge takes place on November 21 and donations can be made at www.charitygiving.co.uk/karlsmith350