18 Apr 2021 HITTING THE ROAD: Kevin Dowson will walk the length of UK to raise funds for charity A FORMER Teesdale resident is hoping to raise more than £10,000 for a cancer charity and kids camp by walking from Land’s End to John o’Groats this summer, a year later than he had anticipated. Kevin Dowson, who grew up in Copley, but moved to Derby in the early 1990s, had intended to marking his 60th birthday in May last year by attempting to walk the length of the United Kingdom in just 60 days, raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support and a volunteer organisation run close to his home, Derby Kids Camp.