Bury St Edmunds rugby club members raise £200,000 for charity
60 cyclists rode from Paris to Bury St Edmunds
A group from Bury St Edmunds Rugby club are celebrating raising £200,000 for charity - through a bike ride.
Earlier this month, 60 members of the club cycled from Paris to Suffolk in memory of 18 members of the club who died in a plane crash fifty years ago.
They died on March 3, 1974, when the Turkish Airlines flight they were on to England crashed shortly after take-off.
The members had been returning home from watching a France vs England rugby match and the crash killed all 346 passengers on board.
Now, the cyclists, including children and grandchildren, have completed the charity ride from Paris to Bury St Edmunds and raised a huge amount of money which will be split between Bury St Edmunds Rugby Club and the St Nicholas Hospice.
Austin Cornish, whose father died in the crash, explained why they chose that charity:
"They specifically have a bereavement department for children called Nicky's Way which is something we didn't have.
"I was three when the crash happened so we had no support or counselling or anything like that and its just something we feel is really important as a legacy of what happened."