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Article: Great-gran, 70, set to bike round Europe.
- Article from:
- Shields Gazette (South Shields, England)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2008
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DAREDEVIL great-granny Maureen Boulton is celebrating her 70th birthday in style - with a trip across Europe on the back of her son's motorbike.
The gran-of-eight and great-grandmother of five will strap on her helmet and climb aboard son Keith's Suzuki Bandit 1250 bike before riding pillion across France, Luxembourg and Germany in late April.
Retired nurse Mrs Boulton, of Tennyson Street, Westoe, South Shields, has shed her initial reluctance and now cannot wait.
The mum-of-two added: "I've never really done anything like this before, I just thought to myself, why not?
"At first when I said yes, I hung up the phone and thought, 'oh no ...