A WALK along the famous Pennine Way has raised nearly £400 for Loushers Lane Special School.

Good friends Charles Oliver, landlord of the Lower Angel pub, Buttermarket Street and Aidan Grannell, of Bruntleigh Avenue, Latchford, decided to go on the marathon fund-raiser to help replace special needs computers stolen at the school.

Charles, aged 58 and Aidan, 50, completed the 270-mile marathon challenge in just 14 days from south to north.

Aidan said: "Before we did the Pennine Way I had never walked more than 10 miles. We did a lot of walking in Derbyshire and Yorkshire beforehand to prepare us.

"Most days we averaged about 20 miles, staying at night in youth hostels, pubs and bed and breakfast places."

Despite walking such vast distances, the walkers say they suffered no ill-effects, not even a blister and were blessed with near-perfect weather.

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