A life-saving delivery driver and his colleagues have begun preparations for their 24-hour charity fundraiser.
Brian Provan became a household name with Courier readers after he helped save a number of residents from a raging flat fire in Arbroath.
The Perth father of one was on his delivery rounds for Parcelforce when he saw smoke billowing out the window of a ground-floor flat on Dishlandtown Street.
He switched into “autopilot mode” and rescued the occupants of the block from the drama before fire crews arrived and extinguished the blaze.
Yesterday, Mr Provan and a trio of colleagues from his depot walked from their Perth HQ into the Angus town as a warm-up for an event to help beat prostate cancer.
The group have been kitted out in top-end walking gear by sponsors KG Technical Services and intend to undertake the Brecon Beacons 54-mile challenge in Wales in June.
As practice, the men left Perth at about 1am yesterday and arrived in Arbroath at about 3pm, covering just over 41 miles in 14 hours.
Mr Provan said: “It’s been absolutely superb and we had a bright full moon to light the way at night. We made it from Perth to Dundee in about six hours and to see the sun come up as we were coming in to the city was magic.
“I met up with a couple of colleagues along the way, having promised them a bacon roll and some juice if they joined in.
“We nipped into a mate’s on Kingsway for a change of socks, because you really have to, and we were off again.”
Visit www.sponsorme.co.uk/kevinsmith/trekfest2014.aspx to sponsor the men for their June challenge.