As more than 500,000 people flee the war on Ukraine, one County Durham man has vowed to travel more than 1,400 miles to the area to help those caught up in the crisis.
Jack Vincent, from Bishop Auckland, plans to embark on a 24 hour drive from the North East to the border of Ukraine and Poland later this week.
And he is currently gathering donations of items such as clothes, nappies and mobile phones to give to those who fled their homes amid what Boris Johnson described as a "tidal wave of violence" and a "hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin."
