FOUR West Devon police officers will be keeping their fingers crossed for reasonable weather this weekend, as they take part in the ShelterBox Challenge. Tavistock-based police community support officers Rob Walsh and Mark Canvin, both 47, special constable Jim Brokensha, 25, and PC Dave Pickles, 44, are aiming to raise £1,000 for the charity by taking part in a 30-mile Dartmoor trek, carrying the ShelterBox and all its contents. The quartet will be competing against hundreds of other groups during the challenge. The teams will use the contents of the box to survive during the two-day moorland challenge, which leaves the Plume of Feathers in Princetown at 9am on Saturday. Anyone who would like to sponsor the team should make cheques payable to R Walsh and send them to Tavistock Police Station.
