A 99-year-old war veteran has raised £6m for the NHS after setting out to raise £1,000. Captain Tom Moore pledged to raise the money by walking 100 lengths of his garden in Bedfordshire before his 100th birthday on April 30.
Following an overwhelming response - with more than 255,000 supporters - he is on track to finish by Thursday. Speaking on BBC News as Victoria Derbyshire broke the news more than £6m had been raised, Captain Moore saidid it was 'completely out of this world'.
He added: "Thank you so much to all you people who subscribe to the National Health Service because, for every penny that we get, they deserve every one of it. "I think that's absolutely enormous. "At no time when we started off with this exercise did we
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