Somerset woman swimming with 5 year old in tow

A woman who used to suffer from the debilitating illness ME is trying to become the first person in the world to swim the 26 miles from Land's End to the Isles of Scilly.

Beth French from Milverton in Somerset had to use a wheelchair when she was a teenager but says when she recovered she found she had so much energy she wanted to make the most of it. She trains by towing her five year old son behind her in a dinghy.

David Woodland reports.