WREXHAM volunteers were delighted to receive recognition of their hard work throughout the covid-19 pandamic. Blood Bikes Wales has received the Queen s Award for Voluntary Service for its work since the start of the crisis. Its riders carry all kinds of medical supplies including milk for premature babies, blood, plasma, medicine, equipment and more to hospitals and other areas of need. Chris Jones, area committee representative for Blood Bikes Wales Wrexham branch, said: Our workload went up by about 300 per cent during the pandemic. We have 90 volunteers in Wrexham and currently we have 45 riders. On average at the moment we do four to five jobs a day, but in the peak we were doing up to 32.