LONG distance walker Brian Smailes took just 16 days to walk from Land’s End to Scotland.
He is determined to make it all the way to John O Groats and says if necessary, to reach his target of completing the walk in 27 days, he may even walk all day and night on the last leg.
The 64 year old is still going strong walking an astonishing 35 to 40 miles a day every day averaging four to five miles an hour.
Brian, of Earlsmere Drive, Ardsley, is tackling the off road route from one end of the country to the other- around 1,000 miles, to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
When he was ten miles North of Gretna Green he walked and talked at the same time to the Chronicle.
Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle
