After running 20,000 miles across 12 different countries in five years, Tenby's Rosie Swale Pope has finally found her way back to the UK, returning to Scotland during the early hours of Wednesday morning.

After a ferry trip from the Faroe Islands, 61-year- old Rosie was greeted in Scrabster on the northern tip of Scotland by a crowd of supporters, which included her son James, friends from Wales and also a Scottish bagpiper. Her adventure, which she began on her 57th birthday in 2003, has taken her across Europe, Russia, Asia and North America.

She plans now to complete the final leg of her world tour by running the west coast of Scotland, through Cumbria and Lancashire, on to Liverpool, and then finally Wales, where she hopes to finish back in Tenby on August Bank Holiday.

"It's fantastic to have set foot in Great Britain again; it's a great moment," Rosie said on her return. "The best thing is that if my run around the world, which is just a small thing really compared to what many people do, saves a life or two by raising cancer awareness and makes a little bit of money for charity, that's just brilliant," she added.

As well as aiming to increase awareness of prostate cancer after the death of her husband Clive Pope, she is raising money for a children's home in Russia run by the Kitezh educational organisation.