Children will be playing and having fun thanks to Cambuslang joggers' Christmas dash

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A running group took to the streets of Cambuslang for their annual festive fun run stopping off at some of the brightly decorated homes for Christmas in the area.Wearing Christmas hats and festive head bands, the members of Cambuslang Jog Scotland group take the opportunity to do their bit for charity at this time of year, and this year they all donated toys before dropping them off at Whitlawburn Community Resource Centre, who will distribute them to children in the area at Christmas.Zasha said: “We do this every year and call it the Zash Dash, or the Zash Dash and Splash because of the rain and puddles.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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It’s just a bit of a change from our normal running.“We also do a toy collection for charity and we took them up that night to Whitlawburn and handed them in to the resource centre after our run, we were all soaked.

They were really happy with that. We keep the donations local to Rutherglen and Cambuslang.”The runners’ route took in Cairns Road, Woodlands Crescent, MacArthur Wynd – where Zasha’s daughter Zowie handed out a sweet treat to the runners – down through Westburn and back to