ADVENTUROUS Wyre Forest people have been on top of the world to raise cash for charity.

Store worker Eddy Taylor has handed over £3,200 to the Acorns Children's Hospice Trust, which is aiming to build a hospice in Worcester, after completing a 100km trek along the Great Wall of China.

And closer to home a lifeguard at the Wyre Forest Glades Leisure Centre has tackled the Three Peaks Challenge - Ben Nevis, Scotland, Scafell Pike, Lake District, and Mount Snowdon, Wales - to muster more than £400 for Kidderminster's O'Dell Centre.

The centre provides leisure activities for people with learning disabilities - and also supplies the transport for the adventure.

Stu Taylor, 33, an instructor at Banana Fitness and Health, completed the challenge in 25 hours 59 minutes.

He was joined by fellow lifeguard Danny Locke-Wheaton, a part-time marine biology student at Liverpool University, who recruited three other students to take part.

Only two of the intrepid five - Stu, of Oldnall Road, Kidderminster, and Adam Walker - finished the course.

Stu said: "I really enjoyed it and it was a great experience for people who had not done much walking.

"I have complete admiration for Adam and it was a great team effort all round. I was hoping to complete the challenge in 24 hours but we ran into bad weather on Scafell Pike."

Forty-seven-year-old Eddy, of Dunlin Drive, Kidderminster, who works at Wigley DIY in Stourport, took 10 days to tackle his challenge.

"The walking was both exhilarating and exhausting," he said.

"The second day was the most exciting for me as we walked along parts of the wall that have not been restored.

"It was very rough at times - especially when climbing the steps up to the wall - as many as 1,200 on occasions!"

Both challenges took place in October.