Cyclist Mark Beaumont to receive honorary degree

A man who has cycled around the world will be honoured by a university this summer.

Cyclist Mark Beaumont is among 11 people who will receive honorary degrees from the University of Dundee later this month.

Others to be honoured include anti-apartheid campaigner Justice Albie Sachs are Dundee-born concert pianist Murray McLachlan and Sir Mark Jones, former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Beaumont, from Perthshire, broke the record for cycling around the world between August 2007 and February 2008.

In 194 days he travelled 18,296 miles through 20 countries, finishing at the the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

His journey was documented in the BBC series The Man Who Cycled The World. He also published a book under the same title.

In another television documentary Beaumont cycled from Alaska to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, climbing the highest peaks in North and South America along the Rocky and Andes mountains.