October 2008 Archives

THIS week we take a look at a Rufford teenager who was saddled with a mammoth task back in 1982.

Guy Turnball, 18, set out on a sponsored cycle ride around all the Benedictine monasteries in Great Britain.

Guy, a former St Bede's pupil took on the 1,836-mile journey to coincide with the 1,500th anniversary of the birth of St Benedictine and to raise £10,000 for the Society of the Protection of Unborn Children.

THIS week we have soccer mad Darren Donnelly who dreamt of becoming a professional footballer back in 1986.

The football fanatic from Flordan, Birch Green, Skelmersdale had already gained a place in the Blackburn Rovers before being named as 'best pupil' during a course for the Lancashire Schoolboys team.

Darren, 14, was a pupil at St Thomas the Apostle, and was picked as cream of the crop out of eight other West Lancashire boys competing.