AUSTRALIA: A British man rolled his way into the record books by skateboarding across the country.
Dave Cornthwaite, 27, from Swansea, finished the final section of his foot-propelled charity trek shortly early today.
More than 200 well wishers joined TV crews and the British High Commissioner to welcome him as he crossed the finishing line in Brisbane.
When he glided over the finish with Elsa, his battered skateboard, he had completed a record 3638 miles.
Dave started out on August 30 in Perth, Western Australia, on a journey friends back home thought was simply "mad".
Since then he has passed through Adelaide, along the Great Ocean Road, through Melbourne and Sydney in New South Wales, to Brisbane.
His unlikely odyssey started in 2005 when the graphic designer bought a skateboard to commute to work.
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