Last updated 20:10, Thursday, 06 November 2008

A WORKINGTON man has completed a three-lakes canoe challenge to raise £1,000 for Whitehaven’s West Cumberland Hospital.

Lee Hardon, 38, of Clifton Court, and friends Alison Kitchen, 42, Robert Jobson, 40, and Gary Beatson, 25, raised the cash for the children’s ward.

The group decided to raise the money as a thank you after some of their children and relatives’ children were treated at the hospital.

The friends, who work as health physics surveyors for Nuvia at Sellafield, had never been in a canoe before but took part in the sponsored challenge on Ullswater, Coniston and Windermere.

The canoes were supplied by Distant Horizons outdoor adventure activity group from Leeming Farm, Penrith.