Ten-year-old's amazing challenge in memory of neighbour who died aged 13 after shock cancer diagnosis

Eammon Postelthwaite is a tour-de-force when it comes to cycling. The ten-year-old rode 320 miles from his home in Mossley to the mountainous Clare island at the entrance to Clew Bay in County Mayo, Ireland.

He races for ESV Manchester at the city's Velodrome, but when the going got tough the memory of a friend spurred him on. His awesome effort raised more than £1,400 towards setting up a centre for teenagers, which will be a legacy to his pal.

George's Den is being created as a tribute to George Butterworth-Sice, who died from cancer last year, just a week before his 14th birthday. Eammon was a neighbour of George. He died just one month after being diagnosed.

George fell ill with swollen glands in May last year. But in the first week of June his family were told he had T-cell lymphoma, a type of leukaemia. He had a month of intense chemotherapy. Doctors put him in a coma to allow his body to rest. His family visited the ward to say their goodbyes, thinking they would speak to him again when he woke up. But it was the last time they would ever see him alive. George passed away on Saturday, July 3rd.

Eammon's fundraising will help finance the centre being set-up in the basement of Baden House (1st Mossley Scouts) in Mossley. The aim is for it to be a safe place for teenagers where they can express themselves, have fun, explore their talents but also receive support, and a legacy to "authentic, vibrant and kind" George.

Eamonn, a pupil at St Edward's RC Primary school in Lees, his sister, Ciara, 13, their father Matt, and friend Mike Grace, set-off from Mossley to Liverpool on the Trans-Pennine Trail. Ciara then left the boys to catch a ferry to Belfast.

From Liverpool the three took a ferry across the River Mersey to