THE generosity of strangers is keeping Matt Wallace warm after 1,400 frosty miles across Britain for Cancer Research UK.

And last night it was the staff of Memory Lane Cakes in Cardiff who were only too glad to sponsor a bed for the night.

The epic trek came about after Mr Wallace decided on his 30th birthday to do “the best he could” in memory of his friend Martyn Sumner, who died of the disease in 2008. He quit his job and cleared his flat last September to walk 1,500 miles visiting the charity’s 16 research centres. He is on course to raise around £20,000 by the time he gets to Land’s End on March 10.

Yesterday Mr Wallace visited the final centre as well as the site of the European Stem Cell Research Institute where he met Prof Alan Clarke.

He explained: “I didn’t have a huge mortgage or debts or obligations, so this just seemed my chance for one man and the internet to do something big.”

With the help of Facebook and Twitter friends through www.whereswallace.org and local media he has thrown himself into the endeavour. “And fortunately at the moment the feet are holding up,” he added.