WATCH: 'Piece of cake!' say Badenoch's biker Hill Billies

It was a triumphant home-coming last night for Toni Vastano's Hill Billy bikers.

Heart-attack survivor Toni Vastano and his men completed a staggering 280-mile trip from Campbeltown to announce that their supporters had donated more than £10,500 for the provision of life-saving defibrillators in the village.

Then he calmly announced that the brutal daily schedule had been kept up despite a violent attack on his guts by a gang of oysters.

"We had reached Oban and everything was going well," he told the Strathy as he grabbed a pint at a packed Suie Bar.

"Then I dug into a seafood platter, ravenously hungry. Only thing is, after my last health battle in September, my brain had totally forgotten that I was allergic to oysters!

"Frankly I was up all night getting them out of my system, so to speak, and I couldn't dare to eat anything for more than a day afterwards.

"Still, the guys looked after me OK and we sorted it out just by getting on with the job in hand.

"It's all about providing and maintaining defibrillators in the village, knowing only too well how vital they are."

Mr Vastano, who runs the village's Old Post Office Cafe and Gallery, was saved in September by the use of a defibrillator during a holiday on Islay.

There will be more on the Hill Billies' triumphant in Thursday's Strathy.

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