Former Royal Navy sailor is walking around nearly 8,000 miles around the UK coast for charity

A former Royal Navy sailor is walking around nearly 8,000 miles around the UK coast - after first coming up with the idea aged seven years old.

Jim Morton, 61, set off nearly a year ago from Penistone, South Yorks, and is currently in Edinburgh, on his 277th day of the trek.

He was 60 when he set off on April 12, and expects to be 62 when he finishes the 7,500 mile trek, and praised the kindness of strangers who let him use their electricity and sleep on their driveways.

In August he was hospitalised for three days in the summer after suffering a bleed on the brain and breaking his foot.

He is raising money for the Gurkhas after serving with them on the first Navy ship he worked on, in the 1970s.

He is hoping to raise £50,000 and has so far raised nearly £9,200.

The donations raised will go charity The Gurkha Welfare Trust, after a devastating earthquake in 2015 devastated parts of Nepal.

Jim said: "It's all to go towards helping them in Nepal, they come over here, serve for 15 or 20 years and would normally go back to Nepal and have a family but everything was lost in the earthquake."

This video was filmed on the 13th January 2021.