A retired North Somerset man's successfully cycled more than fourteen hundred miles across three European countries for charity.

68 year old Alan Blythe and pal Martin went 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.

It took them 22 days, 48 hours quicker than scheduled - and they're on course to making a thousand pounds in donations ... but Alan says he won't be doing it again!