A journalist walked 100 miles during last week’s heatwave in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

Joseph Draper undertook the challenge of walking the length of Devon and Dorset’s Jurassic Coast, raising more than £1,000 to help aid Ukrainian refugees in the process.

The 24-year-old, who now works for Bournemouth News and Picture Service, was previously on the staff at his hometown newspaper the South Wales Argus.

He took on the five-day trek from 16 to 20 July with his friend Joe Holt.

Joseph, who previously joined a humanitarian convoy to Lviv earlier this year, told the Argus: “It was exhausting; it just seemed to go on and on and on.

“On the first day we just tried to walk through it, but we got dehydrated and ill – I used old sun cream and it wasn’t effective; my legs looked like rhubarb.”

He added: “The people of Ukraine didn’t have a choice; they were thrown into [fleeing].

“I reminded myself – no matter how bad I felt – there were people worse off.

“At the end of it I had a bed and a home; they didn’t.”

Donations to Joseph’s cause can be made here.