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A WIGTON man who has taken on an epic fund-raising challenge has seen his efforts backed by a local solicitors. Charles Deans is attempting to travel the distance from Land's End to John O'Groats in his wheelchair on Cumbrian Roads. The Wigton man was paralysed 16 years ago, but recently climbed Dodd Fell and Latrigg with his family. He is now attempting to travel 874 miles - the distance between Britain's most northern and southern points - on local roads. Part of the fund-raising campaign is a competition for primary school children across Cumbria to design a t-shirt for Mr Deans to...

Charles Deans A Carlisle solicitors office is backing a county-wide competition offering school children the chance to win one of two bikes. Wragg Mark-Bell is getting behind local man Charles Deans’ attempt to travel the distance from Land’s End to John O’Groats in his wheelchair to raise money for two local charities. Part of that fundraising campaign will also include a competition for all primary school children in Cumbria to design a T-shirt for Mr Deans to wear on the final leg of his journey, which is set to be completed on local roads in the coming weeks.

A Cumbrian man has climbed his first two Wainwrights – 15 years after he was paralysed – and has just launched a massive fundraising challenge for two local charities.   Charlie Deans, 46, climbed Dodd Fell and Latrigg with his family and says it will be the first of many...

IT was a magical moment... Sitting silently in his wheelchair at the summit of Dodd Fell, Charles Deans gazed at a spectacular Lakeland landscape, the pale winter sunlight illuminating distant peaks as mist filled Bassenthwaite Valley below. The 46-year-old had every right to feel proud. “My wife, Sara, took the photo,” says Charles, from Wigton. “I was just sitting there, enjoying the moment. It was perfect.” In many ways, conquering Dodd Fell on December 30 last year was the perfect metaphor for the past 14 years of this man’s life — a period of relentless struggle aga...