Charity cyclists finish Western Front Way challenge

BBC Five cyclists congratulating each other on a roadsideA team of cyclists have completed their 1,000km (600 miles) trip through the World War One battlefields of France and Belgium.

Team Blind Dave, an eight-man group led by blind fundraiser Dave Heeley from West Bromwich, set off from the French-Swiss border on Saturday and completed the cycling marathon on Friday evening.

After three glorious days of weather, the riders faced torrential rain, bitter winds and muddy conditions in the days leading up to their arrival on the Belgian coast.

At the Menin Gate in Ypres, the cyclists remembered former West Bromwich Albion footballer Harold Bache, who was shot by a German sniper in 1916, with a…