A SPONSORED walk raised an estimated £4,000 in its 20th year.

About 80 walkers took part in the event at Frosterley, on May 12, for Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation.

Over the past two decades, the initiative has raised more than £85,000 to help this year's chosen charities and ME and multiple sclerosis sufferers.

Organisers Paul and Linda Nelson thanked everyone involved and appealed for an early payment of money raised.