A MAN who is walking the entire coastline of Britain to raise money for charity arrived on Teesside yesterday.

Tom Isaacs' feat is all the more remarkable because he has suffered from Parkinson's disease for the past six years. He is undertaking the 4,500-mile walk to raise £250,000 for research into the disease.

He set off from London's Millennium Bridge on April 11 and arrived at the Transporter Bridge, in Middlesbrough, yesterday, having already raised £130,000.

Mr Isaacs, 34, a chartered surveyor, has taken a year off work to complete the journey and walks for at least eight hours a day.

He said: "Three years ago I walked from John O'Groat's to Land's End and raised £40,000 for the Parkinson's Disease Society.

"I thought if I can do that just by getting sponsorship from friends I should go down the corporate route.

"When the drugs I take kick in I can't walk, but I time my walking and eating around that.

"I kept telling myself this would be easy but I'm now having to realise it's not."

To find out more about Mr Isaccs' trek - sponsored by project consultants Atkins, Faithful and Gould, whose head office is in Stockton, and public relations agency DTW - visit www.coastin.co.uk.