A Royal Navy veteran and lighthouse fanatic has achieved his “lifelong ambition” of walking 8,903-mile around the coast of Britain. Jim Morton was 60 when he set off from his home in Yorkshire and spent the next 537 days crossing rivers and ragged cliff edges, supported by his wife Sue, 63.
During his epic voyage, he scaled England, Wales, and Scotland's highest peaks, rescued stranded sheep and visited all of the 243 lighthouses on UK mainland. It was the realisation of his boyhood dream as Jim hatched the idea aged just seven after being enthralled by the seaside structures in his dad's AA road atlas.
But he was also swept out to sea twice and suffered a bleed on the brain when he fell 20ft from a patch of crumbling cliff, before being evacuated by air. And in Scotland, the grandfather of four was chased by gun-wielding military police after he got too close to a nuclear submarine birth while trying to take a selfie.
