A retired North Somerset businessman's taking on his biggest challenge as he cycles over fourteen hundred miles across three countries for charity.

68 year old Alan Blythe and pal Martin are going from Gibraltar - at the southern tip of Spain - to his home town of Wedmore ... to raise money for Cancer Research UK, having lost his first wife to the disease, as well as other family and friends.

Alan's about two-thirds of the way - and has spoken to Nova News from just west of Bordeaux:

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