Marathon runner's death leads to £1m in donations
Donations made in memory of 30-year-old Claire Squires have broken the £1million mark on the same day her funeral has been announced.
Family praise 'incredible' Claire Squires
The 30-year-old who died during Sunday's London Marathon has been called an "inspiration" and "incredible".
Tributes paid to London Marathon runner
Donations to the charity of Claire Squires, the young woman who died in the London marathon, have reached almost £220,000.
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Mourners arrive for funeral of Claire Squires
Funeral for marathon runner who raised over £1m
A woman whose supporters helped raise more than £1 million for charity after her death in this year's London Marathon will be buried next to her brother today.
Family and friends of Claire Squires will attend a private funeral service at St Andrew's Church in North Kilworth, Leicestershire, this afternoon after she collapsed and died less than a mile from the finishing line of the 26.2-mile course on Birdcage Walk near Buckingham Palace on April 22.
The 30-year-old was running for the Samaritans, in recognition of the work done by her mother Cilla, who had volunteered for the charity for 24 years.
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Marathon runner's death leads to £1m in donations
Donations made in memory of 30-year-old Claire Squires have broken the £1million mark on the same day her funeral has been announced.
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We can confirm that over £1million has been raised (including Gift Aid) for the @samaritans via Claire Squires' page. http://t.co/vI7hNP1b
From @JustGiving on Twitter:Donations for tragic marathon runner reach £1m
The charity fund raising page for Claire Squires, who collapsed and died during the London Marathon last weekend has now reached £1m.
She was raising money for the Samaritans, who her mother Cilla had volunteered with for more than 20 years.
Miss Squires, 30, will be buried on Wednesday at St Andrew's Church in the village of North Kilworth, Leicestershire next to her brother Grant, who died in 2001 aged 25.
Claire Squires fund reaches £1m
The donation website JustGiving has confirmed that £1,000,000 has been raised on the page of Claire Squires who collapsed and died during the London Marathon. When Gift Aid is added to the total, it pushes the level of donations past the million mark.
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Squires to be buried next to her brother
Claire Squires - who collapsed and died during the London Marathon - will be buried alongside her brother, the Church of England said.
Miss Squires, 30, whose death resulted in an outpouring of generous donations in her name, will be buried at noon on Wednesday at St Andrew's Church in the village of North Kilworth, Leicestershire. She will be buried next to her brother Grant, who died in 2001, aged 25.
The coroner at the inquest into his death recorded an open verdict - it has been reported he was a drug user and was depressed after being involved in a car crash in which his girlfriend was killed.
Friend: Squires would have been 'overwhelmed' by generosity
A friend of Claire Squires - who died on the final stretch of the London Marathon - said she would have been "overwhelmed" by the outpouring of generosity.
Miss Squires, 30, had raised £500 for the Samaritans when she began the marathon on Sunday but that figure is now close to £800,000 on her JustGiving page.
Friend Nicola Short told the BBC: "I don't think any of us had any idea of how much she would raise. I think she would be completely overwhelmed and completely over the moon. She'd be going 'woo hoo', excited."
Donations set to approach one million
Donations are continuing to flood into Claire Squire's Just Giving Page. People from 60 countries have donated, and the money will be given to the Samaritans.
Volunteers there say the contributions mean some good will come from her death.
Initially Claire wanted to raise £500 but she is now set to become one of the biggest individual fund raisers in the history of the London Marathon
Marathon girl's family 'amazed' by donations
The family of a woman who died during the London Marathon say they had been "amazed" and "incredibly moved" by donations made in her memory, as the amount pledged to her chosen charity approached £700,000.
30-year-old Claire Squires collapsed in Birdcage Walk, near St James's Park, on the final stretch of the 26.2-mile course on Sunday. She died with the finishing line only one bend away, after 25 miles of the marathon.
Speaking after more than 60,000 donations were pledged to Claire's Justgiving page, a spokeswoman for the London Marathon said: "Claire's family have been incredibly moved by the measure of support and donations from the public, and are amazed by the amount raised so far, which continues to rise.
"These donations are a lasting testament to their beloved daughter and the cause in which she believed so passionately. Claire was particularly inspired to run for the Samaritans by her mother's 24 years of volunteer work for the Samaritans."