The fourth outing of a fundraising event has raised a record £100,000 for a cancer charity.

The often gruelling Llangollen Round Challenge, a 35-mile run/walk through the beautiful yet tough terrain of the hills surrounding the town, which can be completed in either one or two days, saw another record set for the route being completed in the fastest time.

Volunteers and friends of the challenge who met for a post-event gathering at The Hand Hotel were given the full facts of the highly successful event by one of its long-time volunteers, Trevor Jeffries.

He said that since being launched in 2012 by members of the Llangollen Ramblers group and based roughly on the Alpine Walk Tour of Mont Blanc, the amount raised for Cancer Research UK by the challenge had climbed from £33,000 to more than £100,000 this year.

The 2022 challenge, on the last weekend in May, had attracted over 600 entries from across the UK and abroad and seen 238 walkers or runners finishing it in a single day with another 189 completing it in two.

A fresh record was set when the first person back at the event's Llangollen Leisure Centre base was certified to have covered the whole 35 miles in just seven hours. The fastest woman completed it in seven hours and 34 minutes.

As usual, a small army of more than 80 volunteers manned checkpoints along the route, where those taking part were served with water supplied free by local businesses and cakes presented by home bakers in the area. More helpers were back at base checking in participants and handing out their times.

Trevor read out a series of messages organisers had received from participants describing in glowing terms their enjoyment of the event and the way it had been organised.

There was special thanks - and a presentation - to the "dynamic trio" of Sandra Woodhall, Judy Smith and Jason Morley who organised the challenge.

And Nadine Isaacs, relationship manager (North Wales) at Cancer Research UK, said: "It's lovely to be here this evening to celebrate the huge success of the Llangollen Round Challenge.

"Forty years ago the cancer survival rate was one in four. Today it is two in four but Cancer Research UK's mission is to reduce this further to three in four.

"Without the support we receive from fundraisers such as you we could not continue with our research."