COMEDIAN Jo Brand was cheered on by well-wishers in Wombwell as she walked through the town as part of her epic Sport Relief challenge.

The star made her way down High Street as part of her 150 mile walk from Hull to Liverpool - called Jo Brand’s Hell of a Walk.

Jo, 58, stopped off at the Horseshoe pub to speak with members of Barnsley Age UK for a documentary of her journey, to be aired later in the year.

Locals and shoppers lined the streets to welcome her with many shouting cheers of ‘good luck’ and ‘you can do it, Jo’.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle