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A man who raised twelve thousand pounds for charity by running the length of the Tyne and Wear Metro line has said he is looking forward to a "nice sit down". Paul McDougal completed the seventy-three-point-five mile challenge, which started at South Hylton Metro station in Sunderland and finished at St James station in Newcastle on Sunday, in eighteen hours and forty minutes.

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00:00A man who raised £12,000 for charity by running the length of the Tynanwyra Metro line
00:07has said he's looking forward to a nice sit-down. Paul McDougall completed the 73.5-mile challenge,
00:14which started at South Hilton Metro Station in Sunderland and finished at St James Station
00:20in Newcastle on Sunday in 18 hours and 40 minutes. McDougall, who is from Cramlington
00:26but lives in Vietnam, said he wanted to help a charity that supports children whose parents
00:31suffer from alcohol addiction. The 35-year-old said he was almost certain he would have failed
00:38without the support of family, friends and strangers who cheered him on along the way.
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