FAMILIES are always being asked to ditch their car on the school run and find greener and healthier ways of taking their kids to class.

But one teenager from Roseworth, in Stockton, has taken that advice to new extremes by unicycling more than three miles to school every day.

Cameron Peacock, 14, took up the sport when he was 11 and is so obsessed with the one-wheeled hobby that he spends every moment he can riding.

Cameron said: “Obviously, riding a unicycle is more tricky than riding a conventional bike but it is not as difficult as people think - everyone can do it if they put their mind to it.

“I don't know exactly what I want to do in the future, but at the moment I would like to be the best I possibly can be at unicycling. I want to be number one in the UK.”

He has eight unicycles and spends his spare time performing tricks as well as taking them on cross country tracks.