Teams take on Children in Need three-legged walks

Ben Watts and Adam Dowling are walking three-legged around St Mary's Island

Radio presenters from across south-east England are taking part in a three-legged challenge raising funds for BBC Children in Need.

Teams from BBC Radio Sussex, BBC Radio Surrey and BBC Radio Kent are joined together and attempting to walk a total of 25 miles (40km) per pair, meeting school children and people who have benefitted from the charity.

In Kent, afternoon presenter Adam Dowling and sports reporter Ben Watts are walking around St Mary's Island in Chatham on Tuesday.

In Surrey, weekend breakfast presenter Allison Ferns and Game Changers presenter Emily Jeffery started their challenge in Cranleigh before heading to RHS Garden Wisley.

The Kent pair trained with Olympic race walker Tom Bosworth, while the Sussex and Surrey team were put through their paces by Pete Witcomb from Brighton & Hove Athletics Club.

The four presenters are joining forces with dozens of others from radio stations across the UK for the charity's Thousand Mile Challenge.

On Wednesday, the Kent pair will resume their challenge walking along the Thanet coastal path from West Bay in Westgate-on-Sea to Kingsgate.

The Sussex and Surrey team will continue their three-legged trek in Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex, walking to Brighton's Palace Pier.

Emily Jeffery and Allison Fern started their walk from St Cuthbert Mayne School in Cranleigh

Dowling said: "Ben and I have done loads of work together on our co-ordination, so I think we can get a good rhythm going and stay together.

"The issue will be tiredness. That and the weather.

"We could do without the rain that's been threatening us for Wednesday particularly."

Ferns said: "It would be one thing having to do that on my own.

"But the fact that I'm having to do it tied to somebody else is actually quite scary - particularly for Emily - as she's going to have to spend two whole days in my company and there's going to be no escape."

Children in Need has funded projects for disadvantaged children and young people across the UK since 1980.

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