Takeaway treat for Melbourne
Award hope for business
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A HUGE crowd of people descended on Melbourne’s Castle Street to join in a live broadcast for ITV show Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. Images taken by our photographer Tina Baker of hundreds of people gathering outside Melbourne’s fire station and dental practice on March 14 are particularly poignant in the light of the current ban on meetings l Andi Peters outside Melbourne Fire Station during of more than two people, due to coronavirus. The following week, the ITV show was broadcast without a live studio the outside broadcast. audience as restrictions came into force a few days after cam- quite the same place as Mel- siastically to JLS song Everyweek.” eras were in Melbourne. Referring to Melbourne havbody in Love. bourne, Australia. But on March 14, there was ing been in the news in FebruLocal people had been alerted Andi told Tina that he apprenot yet a ban on public gather- ciated the warm welcome given ary in connection with reports to the fact that an outside ings and there was a joyful at- to the show by Melbourne resiof local people not reporting broadcast was happening via mosphere as people craned their dents who turned out to join in drug taking in the village for social media. necks to catch a glimpse of TV with the live broadcast. fear it may damage house Lindsey Mitchell, of Melfavourite Andi Peters paying a prices, she added: “We have had bourne, was one of the people in Pictured cheering and wavvisit while dressed in a kangaroo ing on camera, Melbourne peobad publicity over the last couthe crowd to witness the occacostume … the gag being that ple were also shown live at the sion and said: “My girls love the ple of weeks, so something posMelbourne, Derbyshire, is not end of the show, dancing enthuitive I think is a good thing.” show, they watch it every single
Village Voice inspires reader to be a stem cell donor
A VILLAGE Voice reader has signed up to be a stem cell donor after seeing our story about how a small boy’s life was saved by the procedure. Lorna Lovie, of Barrow-upon-Trent, was so moved by the article of little Alfie Commons meeting the stem cell donor from Germany who saved his life, that she at once signed up to register with DKMS – the organisation that provided a match for him. Lorna, who is director of quality and clinical governance at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, said: “I read the article and I was literally in tears. It was such a moving story. I was so touched by the story that when I read the bit that said you can register to be on the DKMS bank, I thought it was something so easy to do that I pretty much did it straight away.” Alfie, four, whose grandparents Sheila and Rod Hicklin live in Melbourne, became ill with leukaemia as a baby. After chemotherapy failed, his family were told his only chance of recovery was a bone marrow transplant. Christin Bouvier, from Germany, who had registered with DKMS, was found to be a match for Alfie and he received the donation in 2016. The pair finally met in an emotionally charged meeting in London earlier this year. Lorna said the procedure for being put on the DKMS register was extremely simple and quick, with very clear instructions. A pack was sent to her in the post containing three swabs to be taken inside the cheek, a process that takes very little time. These are then sent back in order for the volunteer to be placed on the register. “It’s just that knowledge that if there ever is a match, hopefully you can help someone out,” she said. Lorna Hicklin, Alfie’s mum, gave her “heartfelt thanks” to an “amazing kind lady”. She said: “It’s such wonderful news and so lovely to hear that Alfie and his story is
A SWARKESTONE business has been named as a finalist out of more than 1,000 applications in a national awards scheme. Social media marketing business Babbl was named finalist in the “Supplier of the Year” category of the Club Hub Awards 2020. The awards are designed to help children’s activity providers grow their businesses. The Club Hub awards had 1,019 applications, of which 90 finalists were chosen across 15 categories.
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LEFT: Lorna Lovie and (above) the Village Voice story that inspired her to enrol as stem cell donor.
making a difference; this is everything we wanted and our reason for sharing it with your readers. “Something good is now coming out of
something so horrible and it will, without a doubt, save lives. This is important now more than ever with the current situation with coronavirus pandemic, it’s having a devastating effect and DKMS have seen sign up numbers drop dramatically.” DKMS is a global not for profit organisation that fights blood cancer through recruiting stem cell donors. Anyone aged between 17-55 and in general good health can go on standby as a potential lifesaver. To request a swab kit, go to www.dkms.org.uk. If any more of our readers are prompted by this article to seek more information and even sign up, and would like to share their story with us, please do get in touch on news@melbournevillagevoice.co.uk.
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