Bike ride raises cash for miners memorial
Staff from Raleys Solicitors took to the saddle to help raise more than £1,800 in memory of a miner killed in an accident last year.
They were raising money in memory of Don Cook, 50, of Brayton, near Selby, who died in September 2008 when part of a mine shaft roof collapsed at Kellingley Colliery, near Knottingley.
Colin Cooke, John Woodhouse, Steve Addy and Matthew Brown, from the Barnsley solicitors firm, joined Keith Poulson, NUM secretary at Kellingley, Darryl Jones, deputy of the mine, and miners Billy Gow, Tim Sharpe and Dave Bell on a 45-mile sponsored bike ride, beginning and ending at the pit.
The money will be used to fund a memorial statue of a miner, embossed with the names of all those who have lost their lives at Kellingley Colliery, to be located near the entrance to the pit.
Colin Cooke, Senior Associate at Raleys, who came up with the idea for the firm to get involved in the bike ride, said: “We set ourselves a target of £2,000 and it’s great that we have just about achieved that. We are still collecting the money so we may even exceed it. It has made every painful mile worth it.”
John Woodhouse, a legal executive at the firm said: “It was a tough challenge and some of us had one or two sore areas afterwards but overall it went very well. We were lucky with the weather and managed to complete the course in about three-and-a-half hours.”
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