A team of Post Office fundraisers took part in a gruelling cycling challenge for the BBC’s Children In Need appeal.

Participants in the ‘Pudsey Bike Ride’ completed an 85- mile route across Yorkshire shaped like the famous ears of the charity bear.

Appropriately, they set off from Pudsey post office in the morning and visited other branches, including Harrogate Road in Bradford, across the county before finishing at Hull’s Boulevard Academy.

Lead cyclist Rod Ismay, a Post Office head of finance, said: “It was an amazing day. I was keen to find a way to celebrate and to promote cycling for health and wellbeing, and saw the chance to combine these for this great cause.”

The team had raised more than £2,000 online before beginning their journey, and can still be sponsored at mydo nate.bt.com/teams/postofficepudseybikeride.