People in Britain aren’t prepared to walk for more than half an hour

The average Brit considers anything more than a 30 minute walk to be 'too far' to do on foot, according to research.

A study of 2,000 adults found four in 10 are not willing to walk more than a mile to get somewhere, opting for an alternative form of transport instead.

Three quarters have been put off walking simply because it was raining, while temperatures below five degrees Celsius will see the average adult hop in a car instead.