BRISTOL scouts waved 15-year-old Shaun Waters off at the weekend as he embarked on a trek from Clifton Suspension Bridge to Exmoor.

The teenager, a scout from Lichfield in Staffordshire, has quadriplegic cerebral palsy, and will be using a specially-adapted buggy to make the journey.

He has already completed walks across the Three Peaks, Wye Valley and the West Highlands Way with the machine.

Shaun and a team of family and friends will be camping out each night during the walk, which will take a week to complete.

He is a member of the 9th Lichfield Scout Group set up at Saxon Hill School in Lichfield earlier this year, where he has been a pupil for 11 years.

Its aim is to offer young people with a range of special educational needs access to scouting, regardless of their abilities.

Shaun intends to use the sponsorship money he raises from the walk to buy more of the adapted buggies like the one he will be using on the 100-mile trip, so that more of the Scouts in his troop – who all have complex medical needs and physical disabilities – can experience the outdoor life he enjoys.