Councillor joins aid mission to Ukraine

A KIRKLEES councillor has delivered a piece of West Yorkshire's history and sheltered from missiles during a humanitarian aid mission to Ukraine.

- By ABIGAIL MARLOW

As part of a convoy organised by British-Ukranian Aid and Caritas, Leader of Kirklees' Lib Dem group, Cllr John Lawson, headed over to Lviv with seven other volunteers to deliver vital supplies. The councillor's trip began on Tuesday, September 30, when he and his brother Sam, who had come over from Canada, set off south to pick up fire hoses donated by the London Fire Service.

After catching the ferry to Antwerp and making several pitstops in Europe, the group arrived in Lviv where they would stay for two nights. As well as between 30 and 40 fire hoses, the convoy delivered generators, medical supplies, walking frames, crutches, bedding and clothes, hand-knitted teddy bears, tools, two ambulances, two 4x4s, a pickup truck, and a quadbike.