A fomer Kidderminster woman braved gales and torrential rain to complete the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run at the weekend in an open-top 1902 Albion Dog Cart.

Journalist Naomi Bishop and co-driver John Stretton did the 60-mile journey in just over six hours despite one of the worst-ever weather conditions for the 550 entrants.

Naomi, former pupil of King Charles I School, Kidderminster, said: "I was completely wet through despite layers of protective clothing.

"But what was encouraging was the number of people sitting at the roadside under umbrellas to cheer us on.

"The forecast of gales was quite right and it was so wet that I thought at one point that we had missed Brighton and driven into the sea."

The car, top speed 14mph, was amongst entries from all over the world. The event for pre-1905 cars, celebrates the time when a man no longer had to walk in front of vehicles with a red flag.

Naomi, assistant editor of BBC Midlands Today, is a director of the British Motor Industry Heritage Museum at Gaydon, Warwicks, who loaned the car.