TWO Budehaven students have presented a cheque to Cancer Research UK following a sponsored 1,000 mile cycle across the country.

Sam Fanson and Keiran Ward, both 16-years-old, fresh from taking their GCSEs, set off on an adventure on June 30.

At 4am, following two hours' sleep from their end of year school prom, they left for Inverness with Keiran's dad, Mark, who cycled the journey with them.

They left from John O'Groats heading for Land's End, cycling anything from 50 to the maximum of 87 miles a day.

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