YEP says: Generous Dickie has a golden heart

WHAT a generous lot of people we have in Leeds.

Yorkshire folk might have a reputation for being miserly but Dickie Bird has hit that for six with a donation of £30,000 of his own money for the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund.

Dickie Bird on the ward at Leedsplaceholder image
Dickie Bird on the ward at Leeds

We all know Dickie’s got a golden heart and now he has shown that to the world.

The news comes on the day that we report how a company had donated money to Toby Nye’s £200,000 appeal to pay for treatment for a rare form of cancer.

It is good to know that this area has such generous and thoughtful people. It makes us proud to be from Yorkshire.

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