Last year Headingley was the unwilling host of the so-called 'Great Student Run', organised by Nova International (who also do other events, like the Great Northern Run). It was instigated by the sport-obsessed VC of Leeds Met, as part of his promotional campaign (and his Chancellor just happens to be Brendan Foster, supremo of Nova).
Sue grew up in a house with an outside toilet and no bathroom. However, despite a lack of modern amenities, the proximity of local shops, social clubs and a recreation ground to work and home ensured that the streets of three bedroom Victorian terraces in Romsey, Cambridge - which had been inhabited by railway workers and their extended families since 1885 - remained a popular working-class neighbourhood during Sue's childhood in the 1960s. "We always played in the road," she recalls. "You knew everybody."