A CHARITY Fun Day held at two Lowton pubs has raised cash to help bring upto 12 children from Russia on holiday to Leigh.
The money was raised at the Church Inn and Jolly Carter hostelries as part of the on-going charity scheme 'Medicine and Chernobyl UK' which was first hightlighted in The Journal in March after reader Barbara Priestman of Cavendish Street, Leigh, appealed for local people to get involved.
Now thanks to two other local women, Shelagh Quirke and Lisa Edwards who organised the fun day, the Lowton event raised more than £860.
The cash will be used towards bringing the children to Britain from the contaminated Russian region of Bolarus where fallout from the 1985 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is still affecting local people. During their visit to the UK some children will have medical treatment.
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