A family who are fund-raising to help Indian orphans have completed a four-day hike across the Midlands.

Margaret Taylor, her partner Dave Norris, and her son and daughter-in-law, walked 70 miles from Stoke-on-Trent to Margaret's home in Mountsorrel.

They have raised well over £1,000, which will buy equipment for children at an orphanage in Goa.

The walk began on Friday at the school in Stoke where Margaret's son, Darren, works as a caretaker.

Dave, 68, said: "Darren instigated the whole thing because he went to Goa last November and met the children at the orphanage.

"He was taking over some football shirts for the children.

"In April, Margaret and I went back with him, and his wife, Carol, and we bought them a trampoline and other things.

"The children who live in the slums have absolutely nothing. They live in cardboard houses and have no beds to lie on. But all the children have smiles on their faces and are so polite.

"They go to the orphanage to learn and it's all they've got.

"I made a film of our trip and almost everyone who saw it was in tears.

"We plan to go back again in November, which is why we had the sponsored walk."

The walk took the group through Uttoxeter, Burton and Whitwick, ending with a 13-mile cross-country hike from Whitwick to Mountsorrel.

Dave said: "The whole trip was along country roads and bridleways and it was lovely.

"Margaret is 72 and had never walked so far before, but she never gave up.

"It should have raised well over £1,000 and with the money Darren is raising at his school, we hope to have £2,500 to take with us in November when we go back to Goa."