Family leads a merry dance for keen Chloe
It may be a 550-mile round trip to the Black Country from their home in Cornwall but for one family, it's worth making the gruelling five-hour drive there and back each week for their daughter to attend dance classes.
It may be a 550-mile round trip to the Black Country from their home in Cornwall but for one family, it's worth making the gruelling five-hour drive there and back each week for their daughter to attend dance classes.
Parents Darren and Heidi Curry drive nine-year-old Chloe from Lands End, Cornwall, to Dudley so she can attend the A Touch of Class dance school for disco and freestyle lessons every Saturday.
In two-and-a-half years of travelling, the family have missed just six dance sessions at the town centre school.
Their punishing weekend routine starts at around 5.30am each Saturday morning when they wake up and prepare for the journey ahead - with the return leg usually completed on Sunday night.
"Chloe is absolutely dance mad, she loves it," said Mr Curry, aged 39, who operates his own security firm in his home village near Penzance.
"It's a long way to go and it's a huge commitment for us all because it has become a complete way of life but it's worth it to see Chloe so happy."
The dance school, based in Court Passage, off Priory Road, has been consistently rated among the best in the country, so the family feel it is worth the long drive to be able to attend.
They came across it on the internet two-and-a-half years ago while looking for a top class school for Chloe to train at after she excelled beyond her peers in Cornwall.