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The End of Facebook?

by John Mills 10:33 AM

In case you missed it overnight, Facebook has blocked Australian users from sharing and viewing news content on its social media platform, escalating a dispute with the government over paying media publishers for content. This can be looked on as a test case for the rest of the world in how Big Tech (as the large companies have become collectively known) can dominate governments in a world becoming more and more reliant on their properties.

The fact that protection of publishers’ rights has reached a stage where an entire country is having to set law is particularly worrying. The Australian Media Bargaining Code will be introduced by the government and their Competition Regulator to address a power imbalance between the social media giants and publishers when negotiating payment for news content used on the social media platforms.

If Facebook win this war of words, basically the world has surrendered the control of information to platforms where no one really knows the truth, and information, when supplied, can be controlled by those with little regard to consequences of ‘fake news’. By refusing to pay for the content from official news outlets, the vacuum created will need to be filled, and with the masses believing anything that appears on social media (or so it seems), the opportunity to manipulate public opinion is massive and dangerous. You only have to look as to how Trump’s use of social media caused chaos in the USA. Indeed, part of the new directive requires platforms to give media outlets notice when they change search algorithms in a way affecting the order in which content appears.

It makes me wonder why Facebook is so resistant to paying for a service from a supplier that basically gives people a reason to use them? Google have already seen the big picture, having decided to comply with the changes, in Facebooks case, what is the issue? Reduced profits? Reduced control? People need to move away from the seemingly popular misconception that these platforms are altruistic, when in effect they are simply ways of making money for shareholders in predominately American businesses.

And this has been shown in Facebook’s reaction to this ‘challenge’, blocking users from sharing and viewing news content. However, this has also had the effect of erasing many of Australia’s official health and disaster management alerts from news feeds and pages from charities and information providers being shut down. After universal condemnation, a lot of these outlets have been restored, but the ease with which Facebook ‘pressed to red button’ has illustrated both their power over such concerns, and their disregard for their users when profit is concerned.

The other main ‘protagonist’ in the Media Bargaining Code storm, Google, has backed down from a threat to withdraw its search engine from Australia if the laws go ahead, and has instead struck deals with some of the country’s major publishers, including a global deal with Murdock’s News Corp for an unnamed (but expected large!) sum.

The outcome from this dispute will undoubtedly tarnish the name of Facebook in Australia, and, probably, on a worldwide basis, and should lead to an understanding of how social media has basically become the dominant opinion former in the world. Control of such a powerful platform needs to be regulated, before it becomes a weapon to be used to manipulate public consciousness. Without fact-based news to rein it in it, Facebook will become little more than an outlet for extreme views and cute cat pictures. Maybe it’s time we should consider leaving Facebook and using alternate ways to connect, either online or via the supposedly dead printed media. Or simply talk to each other.

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Rubbish

by John Mills 2:01 PM

One topic which caught my eye over the past week or so was that Wrexham Council have decided to remove and not replace litter bins because ‘bins attract litter’. Apparently, the thinking behind this is that having a bin means that people will use it, or, it their estimation, overuse it. That is in fact a truth, you only have to look around any layby, anywhere where there is a standard bin, and you will also see piles of rubbish alongside what is usually an overflowing litter bin.

This is really the visible results of what is a growing problem, in spite of attempts by various authorities to solve it. It’s in no way a modern problem, ever since people gathered together and produced anything, there has always been the issue of disposing of by-products. However, given the massive increase in population across the globe, it’s now reached the stage where we are becoming overwhelmed with the disposable detritus of civilisation.

However, there is a constant blame shifting that is contributing to the massing mountains of rubbish we all generate. The action by Wrexham Council is a visible example of this, by blaming the public for dumping rubbish in a place where rubbish has initially been encouraged to be placed. Undoubtedly, there is a large element of laziness in place where the public are not disposing of rubbish in the way it should, but against this is the fact that the places to dispose rubbish in a proper manner are rapidly being reduced, with domestic bin collection schedules being extended, and household recycling centres usually being situated in places you need transport to get to. Given that, for example in Wrexham, there is high number of Houses of Mass Occupation (HMO’s), this usually goes hand in hand with a large number of the population not having cars. So how are they meant to dispose of extra household refuse? Basically, you are seeing the results, with overfull black refuse sacks lying in the streets, or like the foundations of a soon to come rubbish pyramid around the closest litter bin, in the forlorn hope of collection.

The solutions to me seem simple enough (most such issues do!). Firstly, reduce the amount of packaging used for products and reinstitute proper collection schedules. This is the easiest thing to do, but, because of cost, seems to have the most push back from manufacturers. They say it would force up the price of goods. That may be, but if you analyse this, that extra cost for better and reduced packaging would soon be recovered from the customers point of view by a reduction in the cost of cleaning up the mess this extraneous packing is causing. That would also free up funds to re-introduce the completely ineffective reduction in bin collections, which has been introduced under the banner of ‘recycling’ when in fact its just another way of cutting costs. If recycling was to be taken seriously, maybe the producers of packaging should be the first port of call, and fine them if they use excessive and non-recyclable materials. Rather than blame shift this to the general public, park it with the source of the issue.

That’s not to say the public are blameless. You only have to take a walk around the streets and local parks where you live, and you will see people just dropping rubbish with no thought about the mess they are creating. Basically, we’ve all become lazy, and expect others to clean up our mess. Well, the days of the street cleaner have, sadly, gone. Not so long ago, there was a gentleman who would be picking up the rubbish in the street outside my house, obviously taking pride in having a clean environment under his responsibility. And that cleanliness rubbed off, people where much more unlikely to drop rubbish if there was none evident around them. These days, the street cleaner is occasionally there, but usually pressganged in to doing the job as ‘community service’ and the lack of effort is there for all to see.

Unless we all, public, authorities, government take responsibility, filth will be come the norm. Do we want that to be our legacy? Then again, maybe if they actually emptied the bins…..

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Royal Marines team row 3,000 miles across Atlantic

by John Mills 7:34 PM

A four-man team of Royal Marines and veterans are rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic for charity, a journey from Gran Canaria to Barbados. The team, called Cockleshell Endeavour, was supposed to cross the Pacific Ocean in the summer but the race was cancelled because of Covid-19.

This intrepid team of Royal Marine rowers are still determined to row across an ocean and will be setting off from the Canary Islands aiming to row to Barbados in the Caribbean.

They are raising money for the Royal Marines Charity Fund. Give these admirable men the support they deserve.

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New FIFA-backed ‘European Premier League’

by Staff Writer 8:45 AM

Liverpool and Manchester United among top clubs in talks over joining a new FIFA-backed ‘European Premier League’.

Well, if they want to go, let them. Just remember we fans hold the keys,if the televised matches are boycotted, the gravy will soon dry up,they’ll soon come crawling back.

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Money, Money, Money

by John Mills 11:22 AM

With the news having broken that emergency financing for non-league football has now, without negotiation or warning, moved from being a grant to now being a repayable loan, I thought I’d put down my observations on the overall state of finances in the National League and below. With the u-turn by the Government, who are removing the £11m grant, the future of football is now very much at risk.

Initially, the Government announced a rescue package of £300m of emergency funding for sports impacted by the absence of spectators because of coronavirus. Both rugby codes and horse racing were amongst the beneficiaries, but not clubs in football’s Premier League or the English Football League. The breakdown of funding distribution was estimated as: Rugby Union: £135m, Rugby League £12m, horseracing: £40m , football: £28m – National League (steps 1-2): £11m; National League (steps 3-6): £14m.

Firstly,why the disparity between Rugby and Football? Football is by far the biggest sport in the world, with many more participants and a massive profile. This isn’t an attack on rugby by the way, the variety of sport available to British sports fans and players is part of who we are as countries that make up the United Kingdom. However, given the number of spectators that watch football compared to rugby it makes it difficult to understand why the amount awarded was so much larger.

Secondly, the distribution of the funds, specifically at National League steps 1 & 2. I must say, having been a Director at Wrexham AFC for over 9 years, that the National League management has left a lot to be desired over the years, with the upper echelons of the decision makers appearing very much self concerned rather than taking the altruistic view of their membership. For example, the resistance to the introduction of Financial Fair Play, which applies across the vast majority of football, but not in the National League has made these leagues a happy hunting ground for hobbyist owners who want to buy a quick path to the EFL, and you see teams with no history or even a fan base basically buying the League by paying inflated wages to bring in players who shouldn’t be playing at this level. This, in the case of my team, has led to the end of fans ownership, as, although the Club is financially sound and very well supported, the only way of regaining EFL status is to sell the Club to those with money enough to support the ambitions we have.

The way the National League board distributed the first tranche of funding was also questionable. Teams with little support recieved exactly the same amount as those with a much larger fan base. In effect, this destroyed the budgetting that the clubs with larger incomes put in place, as those budgets were built on estimates of crowds in favour of poorly supported clubs who gained funds inproportionate to their original budgets.The fact that some of the owners of these smaller clubs were on the Board that voted through this form of distribution is a pause for thought, not that I’m ever suggesting self interest. Given the uproar that a lot of clubs raised when this format of distribution was put in place, I have no doubt that this influenced the Government’s decision to offer the latest tranche as loans rather than grants.

So what happens now? Well, we’ve already seen that steps 1 & 2 have suspended playing for two weeks whilst details become clearer. I have the expectation that the National League senior teams will also follow this plan, as there is no way any club will take on funding as a loan with no income to pay off that loan, and no certainty as to when football will resume.And with out any form of income, a great number of clubs will undoubtably fold.Simple economics. Talking about simple economics, even shutting down these clubs will result in costs to Government for furlough payments etc., estimated to be in the region of £14m, exceeding the proposed funding. Can you see any logic in forcing clubs out of business and actually paying to do that? I know I can’t, but that is apparently the way we are heading unless the Government again do a U-turn.

For those fans of real football who are lucky enough to have their teams playing today, enjoy the moment, there is a good chance this is your last taste of your team until September at the earliest, and possibly forever.

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Shame of a Nation

by John Mills 5:56 PM

How far has society fallen in Britain? I can’t bring myself to say ‘United Kingdom’ because patently we’re not united. In fact, we seem to have regressed to a pre-Dickensian country were children, the most vulnerable of our society, are allowed to go without food to bolster a morally bankrupt ideology. And any challenge to this is seen as a “political stunt”? How does this happen, and, more importantly, why do we allow it to continue?

The Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused UNICEF of “playing politics” after the UN agency gave a grant, on request of a charity, to help feed deprived children in the UK, the first time such action has ever been needed. Rees-Mogg said the charity was meant to look after people in the poorest countries and should be “ashamed”. The only shame here should be felt by a political party that has systematically destroyed the economy of the country and furthered the interests of its own sycophantic party contributors, relations and other co-conspirators, as shown by the distribution of Covid-19 PPE and other high value Government funded contracts. There’s someone playing politics here, but I don’t believe it’s UNICEF.

The fact that the amount UNICEF has said it would pledge is only £25,000 to a South London charity to help supply nearly 25,000 breakfasts in a south London borough over the Christmas holidays and February half-term, is really telling when taken in the context of Rees-Mogg pays zero tax on a £150m Cayman Islands-held bank account, yet he feels free to criticise

The UNICEF project is working in a joint initiative with Sustain, the alliance for better food and farming, and this is the first time in its history that the organisation has felt it necessary to support groups in the UK in UNICEF’s 70-year history.

This Government is happy to spend billions of pounds on nuclear weapons but when it comes to the children of this nation, they weren’t even prepared to feed the less privileged ones over the school holidays until they were shamed to do so, indeed, bragging that the Tory Government are feeding children (but conveniently forgetting to mention that only after the public backing of an England footballer campaigning for it!) In fact, we taxpayers pay Rees-Mogg £89k a year to provide that criticism of the work of an international humanitarian charity that is feeding hungry children.

They say they are committed to their election manifesto pledge to reduce child poverty. Really? Between 1998 and 2010 the number of children in poverty shrank from 3 million to 1.6 million. Since 2010 the number of children living in poverty has risen to 4.2 million, projected to rise to 5.2 million by 2022. This is beyond belief. In one of the richest countries in the world, our children should not be forced to rely on charity to have the basics of food to eat. it’s beyond shameful.

As George Orwell said “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever“. The more this Government stumbles through what I sincerely hope is their last ever time in power, the more Orwell’s words are proving prophetic.

Any political party that values personal gain above hungry children degrades us all, it is the death of ethics.

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The Racecourse, the Theatre of Welsh Dreams

by John Mills 5:47 PM

Looking at the massive changes coming to the townscape of Wrexham, this is a timely reminder of the importance of The Racecourse ground, home of Wrexham Association Football Club, the 3rd oldest professional club in the world. Over the years it has hosted many Wales International matches and its status as recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as being the oldest International Football Stadium in the world that is still in use.

Although its current architecture, aged stands and derelict Kop are the most visual part remaining of this historic location, the stadium has an aura of the great matches and occasions that have taken place here, permeated though the stands and terracing. Simply standing in the ground when empty, you can almost hear the songs and passion of so many dreams and glorious victories blending in to the magical silence that the ground engenders. This Old Lady has been, and continues to be, our own Theatre of Dreams.

The past of the stadium is readily available on other platforms and from other sources, I will refrain from adding too much here, but here is a ‘potted’ history that does not do real justice to its long and distinguished site of sporting activity in the town and region. Y Cae Ras (the Welsh version of Racecourse), has been in constant use since the early 1700’s at least, but gained its name from being the site of Wrexham’s very own racecourse where many meetings were held up until the late 18th century, albeit on a course that was much reduced in size since its earlier year heydays. The Turf public house next to the current stadium attests to the early origins of the ground. Indeed, the Turf also has an historic standing as where Wrexham AFC was formed by members of Wrexham Cricket Club in 1864 as a way of keeping their members engaged during the winter months.

Gradually, the Racecourse grew in to a football-only venue with the departure of horse (and cart!) racing, and the enclosure of the football pitch by earth banks and various covered areas over the early years. As time progressed, and the comfort of paying fans became more important, we see the addition of terracing and in the 1950’s, floodlighting. The current pylons are actually still those original ones that supported the lighting, although with new technologies, the power of the lighting has improved to meet television standard demands.

Wrexham enjoyed many ventures in club level European football, representing Wales in the European Cup Winners cup, and with the success that the Club achieved during the mid-70’s, further large stands were added. Firstly, the Yale Stand, capacity 4,200, backing onto where Yale College used to be. It was built in 1972 in preparation for the club’s first venture into Europe, and also provided new dressing rooms, club offices and entertainment suites. Then the University end (or, to those who follow the Club, historically known as the Tech End) stand was built in 1978, which was for a large part of its existence where away fans were housed. In 1999 the ground was brought up to its current configuration with the addition of a 3500-capacity stand to replace the long-established wood-built stand in that area on Mold Road, which had lain empty for a number of years following on from the Bradford City stadium fire occurred during an English League Third Division match between Bradford City and Lincoln City on Saturday, 11 May 1985, killing 56 spectators and injuring at least 265.

The final part of the ground is the now derelict and condemned Kop. This former all-standing home stand, had a capacity of 5,000, and at one time late in its usage was the largest all-standing terrace in the English Football League.

Unfortunately, due to the actions of owners previous to Wrexham Supporters Trust take over of the club, the Kop was allowed to basically rot away, and is now just the ghost of a place where the main vocal support of the Club stood and paid homage to their team and players, with voices that could be heard miles away and still echo to this day.

Looking at the ground these days, it is hard to imagine that almost 35,000 people attended an FA Cup tie against Manchester United on 26 January 1957. However, Wrexham AFC is a ‘sleeping giant’ with the ability to draw crowds far beyond the current, although consistent and much higher than most clubs at our level, attendances. The current capacity of the Racecourse is currently reduced to 10,500 due to the Kop being closed awaiting and awaiting redevelopment.

And the future of the Racecourse? With the change of ownership from Wrexham Supporters Trust to Hollywood ‘A’ listers, we may see much investment into the infrastructure of the stadium to support the aspirations of growing the Club and moving it rapidly up the league pyramid. What impact this will have on the Racecourse remains to be see, but there remain plans already in motion to replace the Kop with a purpose build all-seated stand with integrated conference facilities built in to the fabric of the stand. The main body of this work, which has been completed with collaboration from The Wrexham Gateway Partnership, consisting of Wrexham County Borough Council, Wrexham Glyndŵr University, Wrexham AFC and Welsh Government, is continuing to develop plans for the regeneration of the Mold Road area of the town. This involves a remodelling of the University frontage, remodelling of the Crispin Lane end of The Racecourse and a lot of work at Wrexham General station, which will become a transport hub.

Indeed, progress has already been made on this very large-scale project, with keys plots of land, including the former garage showroom on the junction of Crispin Lane and Mold Road and the land immediately behind the Kop Stand at the Racecourse having been acquired by Welsh Government as part of preparatory steps for the Wrexham Gateway development. With the change of ownership, it will be interesting to see how the relationship between Wrexham AFC and the others in the Partnership progress, especially with the new owners having quite a lot of money behind them.

However that relationship develops, it is almost certain that the Racecourse will become yet another incarnation of its historic self, and the fights that Wrexham supporters have had to keep football at their spiritual home will finally result in payback in both security of tenure and a Racecourse stadium finally suitable to support the growth of Wrexham AFC and both the aspirations of the owners, but, more importantly, the fans.

We have earned this, make no mistake about that, and, for once OUR Club is having its moment in the sun.

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Loss of identity

by John Mills 3:53 PM

I have been noticing a lot of new planning applications in Wrexham of late for the conversion of existing town centre buildings to accommodation, for the most part, single person flats with ‘shared’ facilities. To be honest, I think its great that the deserted town centre is actually becoming alive again after the demise of the small shop-based market economy that Wrexham was once vibrant with. However, when reading some of the applications, many of them are based on destroying the fabric of a once architecturally rich town, demolishing well-constructed inherently beautiful buildings and replacing them with modern quickly thrown up identikit blocks of unremarkable, unlovable sheds.

The root of the issue is Wrexham, like so many other towns across the country, have town centres whose reason to be have been destroyed by the advent of out-of-town centre supermarkets and large retail developments which isolated traditional shops and eventually killed them off by the reduction in traditional footfall and the changing of shopping habits.

And now we are left with the detritus of cheap facades on properties for the most part owned by ‘landlords’ who are in fact collectives of investors with no care for the towns their properties now blight. And they are even less likely to put money in to properties to tidy them up, apart from the lowest amount possible to keep them legally safe. The value is actually in the footprint of the building, it being cheaper to knock a centuries old building down and replace it with a modern, cheaply thrown together box.

The simplest of rules to enforce would be the preservation of the historic facades and incorporation in to any replacement building, but as we’ve seen in the past as with, for example the old Vegetable Market, there is only lip service paid, and never any enforcement. That façade was left to simply rot away until it became a public danger and had to be demolished.

Was this on purpose to allow a ‘clean site’? Of course, not (insert cynical laughter here), but, strangely, this happens time after time. And there is yet a building that has been built in the last 30 years or so that has any architectural merit at all, nothing that you could look at and be proud it was part of your home town.

We could have had a beautiful, vibrant town with just a little effort, but until someone leads from the front and enforces the wishes of Wrexham people we are travelling down the same route as most towns, and as time progresses, it will come to the stage when every town will be an identical copy of another. Simply giving the town its identity back by removing ugly, modern facades, allowing ground floors to be shops again but with the added value that each building would be different, have its own identity, rather than just a continuous appearance of flat faced glass boxes that all look the same.

The more we lose, the less there will be to fight for, and, to be honest, it appears those that do care are a dying breed, rather like the beauty of Victorian and Edwardian architecture that used to abound in our town. There are of course a good few towns whose town planners have appreciated the long term value of preservation of uniqueness. I haven’t seen any evidence of this in my locality.

Eventually, the growing influence of online shopping will create a vacuum that will reverse the doughnut process that moved shopping out of town, with even those modern churches to the religion of mass shopping falling away. You only have to look at the Eagle’s Meadow white elephant to see this happening, its like visiting a wind tunnel most days. Now is the time to establish the path to the future. People will return to town shopping if shops are there, especially if they are living in the town, with probably no means of visiting the supermarkets miles out. And you will also have the bonus of tourism, a proper Welsh marketing town with the Parish Church as a centre point, unique buildings with individual shops offering an identity worth travelling to see.

And the annoying thing is, its all so achievable, but we just aren’t moving, simply going with the flow. Stand up and be counted, question developments, force preservation, have a vision for the future, because its your descendants that will feel the loss the most, they will have no chance to reverse the process of destruction that is in motion, and has almost a life of its own.

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Priti Patel – Broken Morals

by John Mills 3:54 PM

Priti Patel has ‘apologised’ after a Whitehall investigation found that she had “not always met the high standards” required of ministers after an official inquiry concluded that she breached the ministerial code as a result of claims of bullying and harassment from civil servants in three separate government departments.

Boris Johnson has (as expected by most given his dealings surrounding the various Dominic Cummings, and other, scandals) rejected calls for her resignation. He has pointed to the report’s conclusion that her actions may have been “unintentional” and its criticism of senior civil servants for not raising their concerns directly with her before they became public. He will also refuse to publish the full Cabinet Office investigation into Patel’s behaviour that led to the report by Sir Alex Allan, his adviser on ministerial standards.

Speculation over the inquiry has prompted condemnation of the Cabinet Office inquiry process, which is conducted in secret and offers no recourse for complainants. Johnson has already been criticised for compromising the process by insisting before the inquiry had ended that he would continue to support Patel.

Some of our top experienced civil servants resigned and gave up their career over her activities. She has damaged the background workings of the UK and is clearly unfit for office. This government has so far shown itself to have no discernible minimum standards of behaviour or responsibility, she’s been sacked once for breaching the ministerial code but that was when she was part of a slightly more honourable government that had some standards. Breaching it a second time ought to have brought the same result, but as we’ve seen, Johnson has no appetite whatsoever to upset the gravy train that this Government has perpetuated.

The facts against Patel are damning, in any other walk of life she would have been hauled in front of a court, not just moved to another position of power. Allegations against her emerged in March 2020 after the resignation of Philip Rutnam, the former Home Office permanent secretary, over what he described as a “vicious and orchestrated campaign” against him for challenging the alleged mistreatment of civil servants. According to reports, a senior Home Office official collapsed after a fractious meeting with Patel, who is understood to have successfully asked for another senior official in the department to be moved from their job. It also emerged that an official in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had received a £25,000 ‘payoff’ after she alleged that she had been bullied in 2015 by Patel, who was employment minister at the time. The DWP did not admit liability and the case did not come before a tribunal. Officials in Patel’s private office at the Department for International Development allegedly accused her of humiliating civil servants in front of others while a minister in 2017. Patel is also facing the possibility of being questioned at a 10-day employment tribunal hearing next September after lawyers for Rutnam pushed forward with a claim for constructive dismissal.

What’s the betting that the Rutnam case against Patel will be settled out of court? Sonia Khan’s claim against Cummings was settled this way, with her receiving a large payoff. I will be very shocked if anything meaningful actually happens to Patel. In our modern age of complete intolerance to bullying in any form,it is disgraceful that the Government is basically tolerating such activity by its inaction, and, to a large degree, endorsing its perpetrators. Is this what we want our country to stand for?

The United Kingdom is broken, and people like Boris Johnson and Priti Patel are contributors to its sad and continuous decline.

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A Heartwarming Story

by John Mills 9:31 AM

As most will be aware, Wrexham AFC has been taken over by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. There have already been a number of activities by the duo to show that they are doing their best to become part of the extended community that the Club has.

However, one particular action by Rob to me stands out above any gifts of gin to local hostelries. One Wrexham fan, Aiden Stott, put out an appeal on Gofundme.com as below:

‘I am trying to save and raise money for an adapted bath for my new flat. I have just moved to Manchester to be closer to my family because my care has been cut. I am a wheelchair user and currently my family struggle to bath and shower me in a “normal” bath. I have cerebral palsy, I have no use of my left hand side and very limited use of my right hand side. There is very little I can do physically on my own but I have a voice and I am attempting to use it here appealing to the kindness of friends and strangers. I am on a waiting list to be assessed by social services but due to the Covid situation and an already stretched service I feel I need to be more proactive and try and help my own situation. It isn’t guaranteed that I would be given the bath by social services either. I have been quoted £6000 for a bath and hoist that is mechanically adapted. This will mean I can get in and out of the bath safely and won’t put my family and carers at risk of injury when trying to keep me clean. I realise that itis a lot of money for a household item but my safety and hygiene are important to me. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Aiden.’

Normally, with the standard run of donations, it would probably take months for Aiden to reach his target, especially under current restrictions, with many worrying about how to pay their day to day bills. However, Rob, or at least someone who maintains the ‘watch’ on his social media accounts, had seen this, and has now contributed £6000 to help Aiden reach his target, a very generous donation.

There are the usual people who will say, ‘well, he can afford it’, and maybe he can. But the fact that he has just done this with no fanfare, at a point where he no longer has to curry favour with the WST electorate, speaks volumes for the man. If this is a sign of things to come from the Club’s new owners, the future not just for Wrexham AFC, but for the entire community is looking very good indeed.

Well done Rob, and I hope Aiden enjoys this small comfort and especially his new flat.

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