BBC team completes Children in Need swim

The swimming team from BBC Cornwall completed the challenge over four days

A team from BBC Cornwall has completed a 24 mile (39km) swimming challenge in aid of Children in Need.

Teams from every BBC local radio station have been swimming a total of 1,000 miles (1,609km) to raise money for the charity, which helps improve the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in the UK.

Cornwall's team of Julie Skentelbery, Hannah Stacey, David Dixon, Lou Symons, Daphne Skinnard and Francesca Carpenter, have been swimming in pools across the county each day this week.

The team completed their final lengths at Polkyth leisure centre in St Austell.

Senior Journalist Hannah Stacey said she was feeling a little sad the challenge has ended.

"We have really enjoyed being a team and bonding and working in a pool together.

"I think it's been quite a big life-changer for some of us."

'Sense of achievement'

Production apprentice, Lou Symons, said it had given her "an amazing sense of achievement".

"Doing this alone but doing it as a team as well - all of us doing this together and reaching out to so many different places and for such an amazing cause.

"It's incredible", she said.