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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
James McNeill

Friends set off with nothing but wheelchairs to travel hundreds of miles

Two "best mates" in wheelchairs made a 720 mile round trip from Skelmersdale to Lands End with no money, food or water.

Carl Eaton was born with Spina Bifida and has been using a wheelchair for the last 15 years. Along with his friend Peter Walsh, he set himself the challenge of traveling from the Concourse in Skelmersdale to Lands End and back again without spending any money.

The pair set off on Saturday 9 July in their wheelchairs to a chorus of Folsom Prison Blues. With no means of transport the friends had to rely on the generosity of strangers to get them to their destination more than 360 miles away.

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