A RETIRED Bradford detective has fulfilled a lifetime ambition by climbing all of Wainright's 214 Lakeland mountains.

It has taken 56-year-old Chris Binns, of Bingley, 27 years to tick the last one off his list and he celebrated conquering the final and aptly named Binsey, near Cockermouth, with a feast of cake and champagne at the trig point summit.

"With a name like that reminiscent of my schoolday nickname it had to be left till last," he said.

Mr Binns completed Wainwright's Coast to Coast walk in 1982 and in the late 1980s was in a Bradford Police walking group regularly climbing and walking in the Lakes.

Since he retired in 2007, the group has become his own with 80 per cent of its members still retired police officers.

To mark his achievement at the weekend, Mr Binns was presented with a ‘214’ cap and a specially-commissioned medal.

The walking group now has another mission to walk the rivers of Yorkshire from mouth to sources - they have already completed the Calder, Aire, Wharfe and Nidd and will soon finish the Ribble.