Stag do hits new heights for Colin

A weekend in a seaside resort which results in the would-be groom being chained to a lamppost is a typical way to celebrate a stag weekend - but one group of Solihull friends decided to climb a mountain.

The 20 pals, who are all members of Solihull Arden Rackets Club, headed to the Lake District on June 4 to celebrate Colin McCauley's marriage to Val Blee.

However the group who, apart from two people, were in their 50s and 60s, didn't just sit back and relax, they scaled Langdale Pike.

And six hours later they emerged weary but uninjured after scaling the 2,500-foot peak.

"None of us had ever done that sort of thing before so we had to have a couple of rests on the way up," said 54-year-old John Davies, who will be Colin's best man for the second time at the ceremony at Warwick Register Office. "There were a couple of moments when our hearts were in our mouths but we soon had our feet up in a pub at the bottom."

Father-of-three Colin said it had been fantastic experience.

"I just wanted to do something I had never done before. I go to the gym about three or four times a week but that was the hardest thing I have ever done but it was still fantastic," said the 54-year-old sales account manager.