Disabled man battles snow from John o' Groats to Lands End for kids' charity

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Disabled man battles snow from John o' Groats to Lands End for kids' charity
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Adam, who has cerebral palsy, said: 'It was an adventure!'

A disabled man believes he has become the fastest person to complete the journey from the north coast of Scotland to the bottom of England in a wheelchair.

Adam said it was a "relief" to finish the challenge and hopes to show that a wheelchair enables people to "live life and love it". Top news stories today Battling a range of weather Adam thought he may not be able to go on several times throughout the challenge, when his chair failed to work. He said: "My wheelchair wouldn't start one morning."

Adam has raised over £3,000 for Whizz-Kidz, a charity which provided him with his first wheelchair. He said: "As soon as a young person gets a wheelchair it enables them to do so many things.

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