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SWEET CHARITIES
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Take a stroll with us through the little sideroads of haulage —the diversions and detours, the quirky, the quixotic and the downright strange...
On the Margin, generous column that it is, is fond of giving to chanty. Be it tramps on the street, old ladies rattling collecting tins under our noises in exchange for stickers, or those e-mail requests we occasionally get to send cash to Nigeria in return for unimagined riches, we're generous givers (although if the Nigerians would Ike to send through the vast amount they've promised, it might keep the bank manager off our back). Anyway, in the spirit of charity we'd like to give a quick plug to some damned fine chaps who are doing their bit.
John T Evans Haulage in South Wales has been storing over 20 miles of woollen scarf (which looks like the scarf Tom Baker used to wear in Doctor Who) knitted by fundraisers for the Ty Hafan children's hospice in Wales. The scarf, which has been created over the past three years in order to beat the world record for the world's longest scarf, was also transported by John T Evans to the Millennium Stadium for verification.
Also revealing their charitable nature are drivers and staff at Redditch-based Jon Lewis Transport, who peeled off for a charity calendar in aid of the Primrose Hospice.
Given that Redd itch's previous calendar stars were a number of the town's roundabouts, we don't think there's much local competition in the pin-up stakes (and looking at the picture we could swear our operations editor is in there somewhere).
And over the water in Ireland is "Trucking for Treacy", a fundraising event taking place at the end of August in which an articulated truck will reverse 55km around the heartland of County Mayo. The cause centres on Jim Treacy from Ballindine, who in 2003 suffered severe spinal injury and currently resides in the O'Dwyer Cheshire Home in Bohola.
The organisers hope that over €100,000 will be raised to buy a specially adapted car for Jim, with the remaining funds donated to Spinal Injuries Ireland (a dedicated welosite, wwwtruokingfortreacy.com, will be up and running shortly).
And finally.., this from Mack (again) it's the winner of its first "Bulldog Idol" competition and frankly we're speechless. Although looking again-wasn't he in the photo from Jon Lewis Transport?