Pratt of the week.  

“A man who planned to walk from Bristol to India without any money has quit, after getting as far as Calais, France.”

Hippy barnacled freelove dropout drops out of stroll cross-country. For his own good as well as everyone else’s.

Mark Boyle, 28, who set out four weeks ago with only T-shirts, a bandage and sandals, hoped to rely on the kindness of strangers for food and lodging.

But, because he could not speak French, people thought he was free-loading or an asylum seeker.

The whole sad, sorry story …