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News on others doing the End to End cycle.

New TV series ‘Britain by Bike’

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Sorry about posting this late, only just found out it’s on. BBC Four are showing, A six part series to be shown on Tuesday evenings at 8.30pm. Clare Balding sets out on a two-wheel odyssey to re-discover Britain – from the saddle of a touring cycle.

The first two are still on the BBC iPlayer:-

North Devon
First broadcast BBC Four, 8:30pm Tue, 20 Jul 2010

Her first journey takes Clare to the rugged and beautiful Atlantic coast of north Devon – from Lynmouth, scene of Britain’s worst flood disaster in the early 1950s, to Ilfracombe via Little Switzerland, and a hidden silver mine whose riches probably helped England win the Battle of Agincourt.

URL: http://beta.bbc.co.uk/i/t4lqf/ (Available until 8:59pm Tue, 31 Aug 2010)

The Welsh Borders
First broadcast BBC Four, 8:30pm Tue, 27 Jul 2010

Clare’s journey into Wales is rich in literary connections to both Bruce Chatwin and AE Housman. She reveals how a cycle factory went to war and finds out about the Bride’s Tree – a bizarre village ceremony with a dark secret.

URL: http://beta.bbc.co.uk/i/t6yhb/ (Available until 8:59pm Tue, 31 Aug 2010)

Here is the information for the ones that are still to be showing on TV:-

The Isle of Wight (Tuesday 3rd August 2010)
Time: 08:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Her journey to the Isle of Wight explores its unique sense of otherness – a strange power which could cure Dickens’s writer’s block, repel the deadly attentions of the Luftwaffe and give Victorian poet Tennyson a comforting sense of his own death.

West Yorkshire (Tuesday 10th August 2010)
Time: 08:30 PM to 09:00 PM

As she cycles through Bronte Country on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border, Clare uncovers a unique photographic collection depicting the hidden daily life of a Yorkshire mill town, a string of remarkable women and a secret club for henpecked husbands.

End to Enders reach their destinations

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Three separate attempts to cycle the length of Britain have been completed successfully.

Andrew Robertson and Alan Falconer, of Inverness, reached John O’Groats from Land’s End on Friday after 11 days.

Julian Heitz-Jackson, who is blind, rode tandem with Nicola Bennett. They also took 11 days to get to Land’s End, arriving on Wednesday.

Ten friends from Surrey cycled in fancy dress north to south and completed the route in 10 days.

Read the full news article on the BBC news website: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-10760376.

All the way on a tandem

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A 71-YEAR-OLD man is cycling more than 870 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats – despite being completely blind.

Derek Pritchard will man the rear end of a tandem bike, steered by pal Bobby Feven, for the epic journey they began on Monday.

The Cornish Guardian caught up with the pair as they enjoyed a final luxury breakfast at Fifteen in Watergate Bay.

Read the full news article on the This Is Cornwall website: www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/news/way-tandem/article-2434325-detail/article.html.

Teenagers on track to roll into skateboarding record books

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Three teenagers who are on track to beat the UK’s distance skateboarding record by rolling from John O’Groats to Lands End travelled through the Burnham-On-Sea area on Thursday (July 15th) when they were given a Mayoral welcome.

Matt Elver (18), Charlie Mason (19) and Lee Renshaw (17) from Plymouth are undertaking the challenge to raise money for the Gogo Trust, a charitable organisation based in South Africa.

Read the full news article on the Burnham-On-Sea website: www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/2010/teenagers-record-15-07-10.php.

Make a donation: www.justgiving.com/orsumjogle.
Website:  www.orsumboards.co.uk.

Teacher to ride 100 miles a day for children’s hospital

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Stephen Norwood

THE DEPUTY head of a Sunbury school will be starting his summer holidays by cycling over 1,000 miles across the country from John O’ Groats to Lands End.

Stephen Norwood, a teacher at Chennestone Primary School, will be setting off from the Scottish village on Monday (26) and will be cycling an average of 100 miles a day, to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Read the full news article on the Staines News website: www.stainesnews.co.uk/staines-and-ashford-news/news-staines-and-ashford/2010/07/16/teacher-to-ride-100-miles-a-day-for-children-s-hospital-54472-26869652/.

For more about the trip, and to make a donation, visit www.justgiving.com/Stephen-Norwood.