A COUNTY estate agent partially disabled in a spinal operation three years ago is taking his motor boat around the British Isles for charity - and anyone can join the cruise.

Nick Craddock, whose company has four offices in Herefordshire, is inviting two guests paying £100 each to join him and wife Jo on each one of 23 legs circumnavigating the country from Brixham in Devon around Scotland and back to Dorset.

Nick said: "We'll get to meet lots of different folk and hopefully some of my friends will be on board too."

The six-week trip in April 2008, on Nick's boat Reel Estate, aims to raise £10,000 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and see him achieve a long held dream.

*For full story see this week's Hereford Times.