Adventurer to visit fun day

Adventurer Bear Grylls, pictured with a group of scouts, is best known for his expeditions to some of the world's most inhospitable places but he will be keeping his feet dry when he visits hundreds of Beaver Scouts in East Yorkshire, as they hold their annual fun day at Raywell Park, near Cottingham, on Sunday, May 30.

Grylls, who was the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest when he was just 23, was made the UK's Chief Scout last year. He will be in East Yorkshire as part of his mission to visit Scouts in every part of the country.

Grylls will be flying from location to location by helicopter as he tries to squeeze in 25 scouting groups over the Bank Holiday weekend, starting in the Scottish borders and ending in Yorkshire and the Humber.

Scouting has seen the biggest growth in movement in 38 years, with total membership rising to nearly 500,000. More than 16,500 people have joined since January last year, the fifth consecutive yearly rise.