Three generations of one family will lace up their running shoes for charity on Sunday.

Charm Robson, 77, is completing the Windsor Half Marathon to raise money for the Mines Advisory Group, which removes unexploded landmines and bombs from land across the world, and has recruited four family members to tackle the 13.1 mile course alongside her.

The St Bees runner will be joined by her daughter Sam Robson, 54, and grandchildren Janneke Simpson, 23, Jake Simpson, 22, and Fabio Simpson, 17.

Charm said: "I am looking forward to running with my family. It was my idea and what a privilege, at the age of 77, to be fit enough to be able to start a race with my daughter and three grandchildren.

"How many people receive a text saying 'looking forward to running with you Granny'?"

Jake and Fabio are jetting in from Geneva and France respectively to join their grandmother after she decided to support the charity while Sam, who represented England in the first Women's Rugby World Cup, lives in London.

"The younger generations chose to get involved when I suggested it," she said. "We are running for MAG because I read an article about their work in Iraq in areas from which ISIL had been driven out, but which had been left mined so the displaced inhabitants could not return."

She added: "This bought back a memory, which I have checked with my older brother, of walking through an unmarked minefield near Eastbourne soon after VE day, with my parents and our dachshund.

"I can still see the little brown hooks, which were the detonators, sticking up through the grass. I don't remember being frightened and my brother assures me they were anti-tank mines so a five-year-old would have been unlikely to set them off!"

Since its creation in 1989, MAG has destroyed nearly five million mines and unexploded bombs and aims to rid the world of mines by 2025.

To sponsor the runners, go to uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=CharmRobson