A FATHER and daughter from Great Sankey endured blistering heat in the jungles of Borneo to help save endangered orang-utans in the wild.

Brian Gregory and his daughter, Edwina, went to Borneo in May as part of a project by Carphone Warehouse to help build an extension to an orang-utan rehabilitation centre.

The trip saw them undergo five-hour treks into the jungle in temperatures of around 90 degrees, 90 per cent humidity, torrential rain and plenty of mud.

They also had to sleep in hammocks, eat food from mess tins and drink and bathe in river water.

Mr Gregory, aged 56, said: "It was five or six of the hardest and most intense days of my life but gave me a great sense of satisfaction. We were eaten by ants, stung by mosquitoes and bled dry by leeches."

The excursion was to help build facilities at the south east of Tabin Wildlife Reserve in Borneo to monitor the orang-utans. Carphone Warehouse, where Mr Gregory also works, organises similar schemes every year.