Cheers! Record-breaking drinkers spend 29 years visiting every pub in England and Wales

A team of diehard drinkers were enjoying a celebratory pint today - after drinking in every pub in England and Wales.

Peter Hill, 57, dad Joe, 82, and friend John Drew, 49, have spent almost three decades traveling 250,000 miles around Britain visiting over 17,000 boozers.

The record-breaking trio have downed more than 11,000 pints since tackling the Wales leg of their UK tour which started seven years ago.

In 2008 the group finished visiting every pub in England, after hitting on the idea of the mega pub crawl while bored in their local in West Bromwich.

They started out to conquer all 250 pubs in nearby Worcestershire and Herefordshire but quickly upped the scale of their challenge.

The trio now reckon they are the first to drink in every single Welsh pub.

They toasted their feat yesterday at their final Welsh watering hole, the Sand Martin pub in Cardiff.

Peter, who works as a foundry machinist during the week, said: 'The best thing is we've got to visit lots of tiny places that you would never usually go.

'You know when you listen to the football results and they come on with all the places that you hear, but you never know where they are?

'Well, I've been to loads of those places now - all over the Valleys - and I've had a pint in them all.

'People love us. We've got that many friends now we can drink in any pub in Wales and just have a good laugh in them all.'

The trio have accomplished their feat by going to Wales every weekend, staying in local pubs and B&Bs, and returning home during the week.

They have covered 76,327 miles in Wales, strictly documenting every boozer and every drink they have had on their weekly jaunts.

Peter, a dad-of-two, added: 'I've got a photo of the outside of every pub in Wales and a photo of the inside.

'I've got a record of every drink we've drank in each pub and we've got the gaffer to sign it.

'I haven't got a favourite pub. I'm easily pleased by a pub that is open when we get there and has a pint for less than a fiver - that's a start.

'My tipple of choice is a real ale, but we'll drink anything going - lager, beer, cocktails, Guinness, whatever is going.'

Peter admitted he had no idea how much the challenge had cost them and said his most most expensive pint set him back £7 at 'some fancy bar' in Cardiff.

The trio's boozy efforts have seen them raise £11,000 for a number of children's hospitals all over the UK, which they have collected from pub landlords along the way.

The troupe of drinkers was once 20-strong, and all but three dropped out over the years.