A LOCAL bakery has won a Roy Castle Good Air Gold Award.

Waterfields, with shops across Journal-land, received the award after it stubbed out smoking at its tea rooms in Market Street, Atherton.

Shop manageress Wendy McAllin and Waterfields director Richard Waterfield, were presented with the Gold award by the Mayor of Wigan, Hindsford councillor Evelyne Smith

The gold award recognises provision of a completely smoke free atmosphere

And the company, whose head offices are in Leigh, also received an award for instituting a no smoking policy across all its 30 outlets in the north west. To mark the award, Waterfields presented the mayor with a specially baked cake emblazoned with a 'No Smoking' logo.

The cake was then raffled, raising £50 for charity and donated to a local children's home.

"We were delighted to have received these awards which recognised our commitment to providing safer, cleaner environments in which to work and shop, said Mr Waterfield.

The Roy Castle award scheme was originally developed in the entertainer's home county of Yorkshire following his death from lung cancer.

It is now being co-ordinated across Greater Manchester by Greater Manchester Action on Smoking (GMAS), working alongside Environmental Health departments and Health Promotion units.

Wigan's director of Health and Consumer Protection, Bob Saunders, said: "The important thing for people eating and drinking out is that they have the choice of smoke free areas."

Richard Waterfield and Wendy McAllin present the Mayor of Wigan, councillor Evelyne Smith with a No Smoking cake in return for their Roy Castle Good Air gold award.

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