Most people groan when models say: "I want to travel the world, meet people and work with animals."

But Sarah Coombes, voted one of the top 100 sexiest women in the world by readers of a lads' mag, has done all that for a most worthy cause.

Sarah, from Bognor, went on a 20,000-mile bus journey across the Americas to raise money for the charity War Child, which helps youngsters scarred by war.

It was a gruelling trip which took her from desert to rain forest but now she is back home and planning to start a singing career so she can stop tropical rain forests being destroyed.

Perhaps rock legend Sting, another Amazonian campaigner, could become her manager.