Great North Run 2019: As it happened - BBC News
Updates as tens of thousands of people run the famous half marathon from Newcastle to South Shields.
The parents of a newborn girl whose life was saved after her heart rate rose to 320 beats per minute are doing today's run to raise money for two charities which helped them.

Holly was born on 19 December and was diagnosed with viral meningitis on Boxing Day and discharged from hospital 48 hours later.

On New Year's Eve Mrs Hutchinson, who is a nurse, saw Holly's condition had deteriorated and took her to Sunderland Royal Hospital where her heart rate climbed because of an infection.

Among the treatment to try to shock her heart into a regular rhythm was dunking her head into a bucket of ice cold water.

When that didn't work she was taken to Newcastle's Freeman Hospital where she was given powerful drugs and, shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve, the 12-day-old baby stabilised.

She was then in hospital for 10 days before being discharged to her home in Gateshead.

Mrs Hutchinson and her husband Ian are raising money for the Sick Children's Trust and the Children's Heart Unit Fund.

Mr Hutchinson said training for the Great North Run had been tough.

"But if Holly can hold on with a heartbeat of 320, a half marathon should be pretty simple right?" he said.