BREWERY staff are taking along a barrel of ale on the Motorway SuperWalk '97 - but there won't be time to drink it!

More than 100 workers and their families from the Whitbread Distribution Depot at Shadsworth will take part in the fund-raising extravaganza along the new M65 extension.

Thousands of people are expected to join in the once-in-a-lifetime trek on August 31 to raise money for the East Lancashire SuperScan appeal.

Steve Mack, team leader in the Whitbread warehouse, said: "We plan to carry a barrel along the whole 14-mile route and we'll also be having a guess the time competition."Motorway Superwalk committee chairman Ian Woolley handed entry forms to Whitbread staff and then urged other firms and individuals to enter.

More than 1,300 individual and group entries have already been submitted.

Group entries include members of the congregation at Leamington Road Church, Blackburn, and Blackburn Hospital Players who will walk in fancy dress.

Teams from several branches of Althams Travel Services will also take part.

The 'Park Lee Lovelys', a group of nurses from the the Blackburn hospital, aim to complete the three-mile mini walk in fancy dress with husbands and children.

Staff at the Moss Bridge Post Office, Darwen, at the foot of the Earcroft junction of the motorway, are being sponsored by customers to walk three miles.

Entry forms are available at any Lancashire Evening Telegraph office, town halls, tourist information centres, local hospitals, pubs, supermarkets, leisure centres and health centres across East Lancashire. Or call the entry hotline on 01254 293257 or 01254 294754 after 5pm.

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