SWINDON Advertiser web editor Bruno Clements is making final preparations for the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100-mile cycle event on Sunday.

Around 26,000 riders from all over the UK are expected to take part in the closed-road sportive, based on the 2012 Olympic road race course.

Bruno, 54, has been commuting by bike between his home in Devizes and the Swindon Advertiser offices in Victoria Road as part of his training.

"Starting from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park with thousands of other riders is going to be an experience in itself, let along riding past iconic landmarks such as the Tower of London, Trafalgar Square and Hampton Court Palace," he said.

"There are two major climbs - Leith Hill and Box Hill - so I've been tackling the hills around here as often as possible.

"Once over those it's 'just' a matter of returning through Wimbledon to London, finishing on The Mall, which is going to be lined with thousands of people and I'd imagine will be quite an experience."

Bruno is raising money for the British Lung Foundation as his father, Jeff, 82, was recently successfully treated for lung cancer in Holland.

Jeff Clements suffered lung cancer as result of a skin cancer spreading and the drug he was treated with, Yervoy (ipilimumab), can now be used in the UK.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) found that the combination therapy of Opdivo (nivolumab) and Yervoy for people with melanoma that has spread around the body can stall its progression by an average of eight months compared with standard treatment and wipes out tumours in around a fifth of patients.

Bruno said: "Last year we were preparing for the worst and yet now my dad has a completely new lease of life.

"We're delighted that this treatment is available here now and it seem appropriate that the British Lung Foundation, which has spent £26m on lung research in the last 30 years, should benefit."

Bruno can be sponsored at: bit.ly/2a9WZKA