The BBC reports on a trip to southern Africa that Warwickshire resident Roland Cherry took in June with his wife that ...

A brush with death may often afford a changed outlook, and the perspective adopted by Roland Cherry is the kind that's not unheard of. But the particular events that led him to it really don't ...

A holiday of a lifetime in Zambia almost ended in tragedy when a hippo hit a couple's canoe and flipped them into the water, dragging 63-year-old Roland Cherry into the depths before tossing him ...

Roland Cherry and his wife Shirley, from Warwickshire, were three weeks into their holiday in Zambia when disaster struck during the tour of the 979 mile-long Kafue River. A female hippo ...

Mr Cherry suffered a 10-inch (25cm) wound to his abdomen, plus a thigh injury and dislocated shoulderCredit: Roland and Shirley Cherry The hippo terrifyingly grabbed Roland in its jaws ...

Roland Cherry, from Warwickshire, said the animal “chewed his flesh” and he was badly injured when it threw him through the air “like a rag doll”. The 63-year-old says a local hospital ...

"You can't just take in life, you have to give back." A brush with death may often afford a changed outlook, and the perspective adopted by Roland Cherry is the kind that's not unheard of. But the ...