TWO Kidderminster women are heading to London to join 15,000 others as they power walk through the streets of the capital in the middle of the night wearing pink, fluffy, decorated bras.

Gill Pochribniak, of Fulmar Road, Spennells, said she and her friend, Pam Grice, were heading to London to take part in the Playtex Moonwalk, which aims to raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer and the Bristol Cancer Help Centre.

The duo have been in serious training for the last seven weeks and are hoping to put in a credible time of three hours.

They will set off from Hyde Park at 11.30pm on Saturday night, to walk 13.5 miles - a half-marathon distance.

Mrs Pochribniak, 49, said: "It would be nice to do it in three hours but that is not the main reason for doing it. The main reason is to have fun."

On the subject of wearing the bras that she and Mrs Grice, 50, of St Johns Avenue, have lovingly decorated with shocking pink feathers, Mrs Pochribniak said she was beginning to wonder how she had been talked into it.

She explained: "I don't think we are bonkers but it is certainly offbeat. At least there will be 15,000 other women and some men all doing the same.

"Like everybody else, we know people who have been affected by cancer in some way."

The Moonwalk is organised by Walk the Walk the charity, started by a New York woman who had a plan to power walk the New York Marathon.

The idea spread to London when it was decided in 1998 to walk the route of the London Marathon, starting at midnight and finishing at 7am on the day of the Marathon - when it was christened the Moonwalk.