Four ScottishPower engineers are preparing to complete a Millennium-inspired cycling challenge to raise money for Yorkhill Sick Children's Hospital, Glasgow. The team plan to cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats, 1000 miles to mark the beginning of a new 1000 years, in just two weeks.

The team are all engineers based at the company's electricity control centre, in Hamilton. They plan to leave Scotland on the 4 June and begin the cycle north the next day. They hope to cycle between 70 and 100 plus miles each day, with their route taking in Exeter, Bristol, Carlisle, Ayrshire then north to the Great Glen and Inverness.

The team members are John McNally and Graeme Ross from Paisley, Stewart Forbes from Mount Vernon, Glasgow and Alasdair McNaught from Chapelton with additional support from Alasdair's wife Mary, who will be driving the back-up vehicle, which has been kindly "borrowed" from ScottishPower. The team will be wearing specially designed, bright yellow and blue, ScottishPower-branded cycling outfits, which will help make the team easily recognisable.

Alasdair McNaught said: "We have already received a lot of financial and physical support from our families, friends, colleagues and the company. Our colleagues in Hamilton are covering all our shifts for the two weeks and my mother has volunteered to look after our three children. Everyone has been helping us to reach our fundraising target of £10,000 but we continue to need support to achieve this."

Further Information:
Ann Hood,                ScottishPower Press Office      0141 248 8200