A North Somerset man says he's more motivated than ever - well into a fourteen hundred mile charity cycle across three countries.

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 spoken to us from just outside Bordeaux in south-west France this afternoon - having completed about two-thirds of the trip:

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