A BURY woman is using her healing hands to help bring comfort to former war-torn Sarajevo.

Mrs Mavis Lawton (60), set off from her Greenfield Close home yesterday for a two-week stay in the country.

During her time in the former Yugoslavia she will use the hands-on holistic Reiki Japanese healing technique to soothe hospital patients and orphans.

Mrs Lawton, a semi-retired office manager, first became involved in Reiki six years ago when she and her husband, Ian, visited a psychic fair.

Since then she has practised and taught the technique at Bury Complementary Health Centre in Tenterden Street.

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