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MAG In The Press
Yorkshire Post
ROYAL Navy veterans are to march through Scarborough tomorrow a year after the parade was nearly scuppered by Health and Safety red tape.
It will be a personal triumph for former destroyer quarter master Peter Lee-Hale, who has revealed he suffered a near fatal heart attack after the stress surrounding last year's controversy.
The 8th Destroyer Association made national headlines last September when North Yorkshire police were accused of "acting like Hitler" by threatening to ban the event, which had been held for 13 years, unless the members complied with safety legislation.
Police wanted the organisation to put up a £1m insurance in case there were any accidents with the public, and for marshalls to wear high visibility jackets, even though the march is less than a mile and mainly consists of elderly men walking.
In the end, the march did go ahead after an anonymous donor put up the £300 for the third party public liability insurance and members of the Motorcycle Action Group took the place of police in marshalling the route.
Lynn News
Born to be... generous and nice to children
Members of West Norfolk Motorcycle Action Group gather in Lynn’s Tuesday Market Place before delivering toys and donations to Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Picture: ROY WILLIAMSON 07RW09003 www.photostoday.co.uk
Organiser Dave Goatley said: “The nurses brought down the children who were well enough and the others were able to look out of the window.”
Group members spent about 45 minutes handing over the toys, chatting to the youngsters and taking photographs of them sitting on the bikes.
The motorcyclists also collected about £100 in donations to buy more toys.
After the presentation, they went to the Hospital Social Club where a barbecue and concert was being held.
Driffield Times
Cheques set ball rolling for Trip Day 2008
Organisers of Trip Day - the Driffield Children's Outing Fund committee - rely on fund-raising and donations to continue the decades-old tradition, in which hundreds of children and their families from Driffield and Little Driffield take an awayday to the coast.
The funding covers travel by bus, insurance and £2 pocket money per child.
The cheques to fund future events were presented by Driffield Rotary Club community chairman, John Nicholson, and member Maura Lee, and by Jolyon Lawson, representing the East Yorkshire Motorcycle Action Group.
Birmingham Mail
Bikers rev up in green tax demo
HUNDREDS of bikers from across Britain converged on Birmingham at the weekend to say no to congestion charging.
Up to 400 motorcyclists organised a show of unity with a protest ride from Longbridge to Centenary Square on Saturday.
It was staged over concerns about the threat to include bikers in new congestion charging schemes which could spring up across the country.
Motorcycle Action Group event spokesman Trevor Baird said bikes were exempted from the scheme in London and the move had proved successful.
Doncaster Free Press
Firefighter Burns Rubber!
Doncaster MAG are biking their way around Britain in the 3-Borders-and-Back Charity Challenge, in aid of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. L-R are Fire Fighter Glyn Morton, Cusworth Bikes mechanic and back up member for the event Niel Sawbridge, and Carl Sawbridge, of Sprotborough (Picture: Liz Robinson D1118LR)
Glyn Morton, 46, from Scawsby and 30 other bikers hope to blaze through the three-borders challenge - biking from Doncaster to England's borders with Scotland, Wales and the official European border in Southampton's Excise office and back - in one day.
Glyn, a member of Doncaster's Motorcycle Action Group, said: "We wanted to do something for charity that was challenging but realistic so we picked the three-borders tour which is about 850 miles and can be done legally without breaking the speed-limit."
He added: "We chose the Yorkshire Air Ambulance because I've worked with them at accidents and seen the great job that they do. They need the money to buy a second ambulance to cover South Yorkshire.”
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