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Cap honour for footballer killed in World War One

A charity cycle ride led by a blind Black Country fundraiser will honour the memory of a footballer killed in World War One.

West Bromwich's Dave Heeley, universally known as 'Blind Dave', hopes to raise £80,000 for The Albion Foundation, the charitable arm of West Bromwich Albion Football Club, by cycling the 1,000km (621 miles) Western Front Way, through the World War One battlefields of France and Belgium.

During the trip later this month, Team Blind Dave will visit the Menin Gate memorial at Ypres, in Belgium.

On the walls of the gate are the names of thousands of people who died in the Great War, including former West Bromwich Albion footballer Harold Bache, who was shot by a German sniper in 1916.