BILL'S WALK OF LIFE

Strictly winner puts his best foot forward to complete Britain's most remote trail journey in memory of father-in-law

- RECORD REPORTER

HE WAS the oldest winner of Strictly Come Dancing. Now comic Bill Bailey has walked hundreds of miles to complete Britain's hardest and remotest trail - in an "emotional" tribute to his late father-in-law.

He ended on Sunday at mainland UK's remotest cafe with a celebratory cheese and pickle sandwich and a cup of tea.

The Cape Wrath Trail, which starts in Fort William, runs through arguably the most spectacular, and lonely, scenery in Scotland.

But it is so tough that fewer than a third of the 172 ultra runners who set off recently on a near 249-mile long trek to mainland Britain's most north-westerly point finished it.

Winner Danny Smith took just under 50.5 hours. Bill, 59, managed it in about three weeks.

"This is just a spectacularly beautiful place, amazing scenery and the mountains around here are monumental. In fact, the whole trip has been a wonderful kind of journey through all these huge landscapes.

And you get a sense of real solitude and tranquillity as well that you don't often get in modern life really," he said in a video message.