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Prince Harry has quipped that he might get little Prince George running in order to enter the London marathon … or at least have his parents push him around the course. Harry, 30, was talking to would-be long-distance runners at a training day Sunday when he met Jane Fishwick from Shrewsbury, England, one of about 60 who will be taking part on April 26 to raise money for various charities backed by Harry, Prince William and Princess Kate.



As Fishwick, 59, told reporters, "I suggested he might like to run one, and he said there's a little bit of a problem there, because he and William and Kate would all come under fire to do it if one of them does it. "So then I suggested maybe they might like to train George up in good time and maybe they might like to hand the mantle on, and he said he thought that might be a good idea. He said they could push him round."



The prince, who is patron of the event, met people who will be running on April 26 to raise money for his charities at a training session at Twickenham Rugby Stadium. While chatting to runner Jane Fishwick, 59, from Shrewsbury, Wilts, Harry said he wasn't going to run the marathon but joked he thought it would be a good idea to train George up.



After they met inside the England dressing room Jane said: "I suggested he might like to run one and he said there's a little bit of a problem there because he and William and Kate would all come under fire to do it if one of them does it. "So then I suggested maybe they might like to train George up in good time and maybe they might like to hand the mantle on and he said he thought that might be a good idea. He said they could push him round."



In what was his first engagement of the year he watched around 60 runners train for the marathon out of the 150 who are running for his, Kate and William's charities - five each from around 30 charities. The charities support each other through the Charities Forum which has regular meetings. Harry was hosted by Dr Mike England, director of the Injured Players Foundation and its chairman John Owen as he watched runners put through their paces in the stadium.

A soldier in Prince Harry’s regiment was paid more than £16,000 to provide information and pictures about him to two newspapers, a court heard. Paul Brunt, 32, then a lance corporal in the Blues and Royals regiment of the Household Cavalry, provided details about Harry and other soldiers in the unit to the News of the World and the Sun over an 18-month period in 2006 and 2007, the Old Bailey was told. The court heard that he was paid for information, pictures and tip-offs that led to stories appearing in the papers, and received other payments simply to “keep him sweet” as a valuable contact.



The court heard that he was the source of a picture for a 2006 story in the NoW titled “Swastika shame of Harry’s regiment”, for which he was paid £5,000, and also provided info about the royal’s deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. Brunt, of Kentish Town, north London, is standing trial accused of misconduct in a public office. Ryan Sabey, 34, who was a NoW royal reporter at the time, is standing trial alongside him, accused of assisting him. Julian Christopher QC, prosecuting, told the jury: “It was the fact that this was the regiment that Prince Harry was in which meant that any stories, or photos, or tip-offs about the regiment or about Prince Harry himself, however inconsequential they may seem, had a financial value to the two newspapers this case is concerned with, the News of the World and the Sun.”



Christopher added that there were strict rules preventing serving soldiers talking to the press, adding: “Paul Brunt knew that full well, but none the less he provided the paper with inside information as an easy way to make money. “Over the period we are concerned with ... he was paid over £16,000 by the two newspapers.” He continued: “Whether to do with the deployment of Prince Harry to Iraq and Afghanistan or ... stories about other soldiers in the regiment that were deemed newsworthy simply because the soldiers were in the same regiment as Prince Harry, he was receiving numerous payments over a long period of time, showing him to be a source of inside information.”



News International’s own accounting records show the payments being made, with £9,450 from the now defunct Sunday tabloid and £7,200 from the Sun, Mr Christopher said. Addressing the charge against Sabey, the prosecution claim that he sent an email in which he described Brunt as “an extremely important contact” and requested cash payments be made to him, including £1,500 for a story about Prince Harry prior to deployment. Mr Christopher said that Sabey “knew full well” that Brunt was not allowed to release information to the press. The barrister added: “It is no legitimate part of a journalist’s job to entice or encourage a public officer into misconduct in his office. It is no defence to say others knew about it or others were doing it too.”