* Mobile spastics
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A voluntary association of some 100 drivers employed by British Petroleum at the Isle of Grain, Sheppey, has offered its services to the Medway Towns Spastics Group. At any hour of the day or night—even at holiday times—a driver will drive the Group's minibus/ambulance to Maidstone, to work centres or elsewhere. And if the minibus is not available the drivers are prepared to use their own cars.
Prime movers in developing this service were Jim Richardson and Johnny Sussex of the TGWU 1/840 branch. They well deserved the commendation of the Editor of Spastics News: "We hope that publication of this wonderful news will in some small degree express our deep gratitude to this fine body of men for their selfless concern for those who will benefit so much from their kind services".
It shows what is possible if drivers have the time to be thoughtful citizens.