Fantastic Bristol charity fundraiser

Clive Daniels' fund-raising efforts for charity are, quite simply, phenomenal.

At an age when lots of people are thinking of sitting back and putting their feet up, Clive can be found pounding the pavements of Bristol, training for his next marathon or half-marathon.

The folk at Macmillan Cancer Support have good reason to know Clive, too.

His athletic prowess has brought them more than £100,000 in funds. He's achieved that in just 11 years.

That is a staggering figure for an individual, especially when you consider the effort involved on Clive's part. Clive even goes out and about in Bristol knocking on hundreds of doors asking for people to sponsor his Marathon Man exploits.

Not content with securing sponsorship and putting his best foot forward in these massive races, Clive then follows it up with thank you letters to everyone who makes a donation.

His efforts on behalf of his chosen charity are exemplary and the good news is that 63-year-old Clive reveals he's got no plans to hang up those running shoes yet.

Three years from now Bristol City could be playing in a new stadium on the edge of town, just down the road from its current home, Ashton Gate.

Any plan for a new stadium, especially one where football is played, is always going to be accompanied by an element of controversy and opposition. You only have to look across town to Bristol Rovers and their plans for the Memorial Stadium to acknowledge that.

City chairman Steve Lansdown's vision for the future of his football club, however, are a very different proposition.

The site is on open space and looks to be the key to opening up an area of land which could, perhaps, prove pivotal to numerous beneficial schemes on this side of Bristol.

Furthermore it could put Bristol well and truly on the global football map. For, if all the consents are agreed and problems resolved, the new stadium's opening would be perfectly timed for the Football's Association bid for the 2018 World Cup.

All that, of course, is well into the future.

But Steve Lansdown's vision is not a pipedream. Bristol City's new stadium has taken another major step forward.