A professional trumpet player from Enfield is having a break from music at the weekend to climb the three highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales to help a disabled colleague.

Paul Cosh from Chase Side performs with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and is professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Along with five other trumpeters he is setting off on the 24-hour Three Peaks Challenge to raise money for the Clarence Adoo Trust.

The group will climb Scotland's Ben Nevis on Saturday before travelling through the night to Scafell Pike in the Lake District and then on to Snowdon in Wales.

At the summit of each peak they will perform a specially written trumpet fanfare.

The walk will raise money for trumpeter Clarence Adoo who was paralysed from the shoulders down in a road accident in 1995.

For more information and sponsorship details contact Three Peaks, c/o BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Maida Vale Studios, Delaware Road, London, W9 2LG.

Telephone 0171 765 2956, fax 0171 286 3251 or E-mail symorch@bh.bbc.co.u~

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