Marathon fridge carrying brothers pass £1m mark

Two brothers who featured in the recent London Marathon, running the 26.2 miles (42km) with a fridge on their back, have surpassed their £1m online fundraising goal.

Jordan and Cian Adams, known as the FTD Brothers, ran the marathon to raise cash for Alzheimer's Research UK. They both risk getting dementia in their 40s.

The pair lost their mum Geraldine to frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2016, aged just 52, and both have inherited the gene that caused it.

The brothers, from Redditch, Worcestershire, are currently on day 10 of running 33 consecutive marathons in 33 days across Ireland.

"We can expect to be symptomatic in our mid to late 40s," Jordan said in a previous interview.

"I stand here as a soon-to-be 31-year-old, with Cian set to turn 26 this year, and we know that ultimately we're living against the clock.

Jordan was just 15 and Cian aged just nine when Geraldine, was diagnosed with FTD in 2010, aged 47.

The brothers set themselves the goal of raising £1m in their mother's honour.

Jordan Adams said he and his family were "so grateful" for the coverage he and his brother had received around the London race.

"We've been banging on the door telling people this story for eight, nine years and finally it feels like it's struck a chord with people," he said.

• Watch the FTD Brothers as they appear on Extraordinary Portraits on BBC iPlayer

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